Tearing Apart to Rebuild: Demolition

Here are some pictures of the demo at our new house.  We thankfully had a lot of help from our family and after two months we are finally done....well almost!  After pictures of our new and improved home will be posted soon.

The boys helped take small pieces of carpet padding down the stairs and into the garage.

 

Robert hurt himself by the huge staples while pulling up the carpet on the stairs.  Thankfully it was the only injury!

 

Jim came over almost every weekend to help us with anything we needed.  Thanks so much Jim!

Everyone pitched in to sweep up the broken tile pieces and take them into the garage!  

It seemed to never end!

We piled the rolls of carpet and padding over the broken pile.  It didn't take the boys long to realize that the giant mound made a great playground!

Jim and Robert took turns using the jack hammer type tool to bust up all the tile.

 

 

Here's the boys on the carpet pile.  We made a slide on one side to keep them busy.

 

Jim and Robert gladly gave Grandpa a turn on jack hammer.  He wasn't too impressed!

Below are pictures of all of us taking down the cabinets in the kitchen.  Here's where it really became real for me because the kitchen was the thing we really wanted to redo in the Surprise home but ended up not doing. 

                                              Grandma and Grandpa were a big help!

Robert, Jim, and I spent several weekends scrapping up the linoleum in the bathrooms and laundry room.  It was awful!

The house is getting painted!  We were thankful we made the decision to have professionals paint instead of doing it ourselves this time.  A 2200 sq. foot two story was way more than we wanted to paint!

Shopping trip to Home Depot!  Bought all new fans, bathroom lights and hallway lights, bathroom towel bars, toilet paper holders, medicine cabinets, and faucets.  Expensive, but exciting!  Worthy of a picture! 

Here I am cleaning all the outlet covers.  Moose, Kristy, and the boys came over that evening to help us put all the vents and outlet covers back on.  The boys were excellent helpers!

Jackson kept saying, "Me do it!"

Payton was all done!

Logan learned how to use a screwdriver today.

Below you will see Robert and our new neighbor Steve hoisting the backyard trees in the dumpster.  The backyard looks so much better now.  I didn't take a picture of it yet, but I'll make sure to take one of the backyard for the "After" pictures.

Planning it out....

Dragging it over...

Hoisting it up....Steve disappeared underneath!

Lifting it over...

Finally in the dumpster!

Above is Robert taking out the final cabinet once figuring out the plumbing.  Below are our new beautiful kitchen cabinets!  LOVE THEM!

We decided to change out the sliding glass door with these beautiful french doors.  They look so much better (and work better!).

                                Above is the beginning stages of tile.  It turned out really nice!

Here's Robert, Jonny, and Jim finishing up some final touches and installing fans in the loft.

 Above are pictures of our finished kitchen with black granite counter tops!  We still need to install the microwave, but take a look at the old kitchen below.  The difference is amazing! 

 Final words: GOD IS GOOD!  He has blessed us with so much!