remodel started

We started on a house we closed on last week.

There were 4 rooms with drop ceilings. We have torn those out and will patch any cracks in the ceiling.

the doors and the trim are removed from these doors because we are going to close them in. No need for 2 doors into the bathroom and a closet.

The walls will need work around the doorways and the bottom trim. This room had paneling on the walls.

Pretty sketchy around the sliding door.

The roof leaked at one time and this upper corner needed to have the old plaster removed and a new drywall patch put in.

The toilet is setting in one of the bedrooms as of this afternoon.

Needed to remove the toilet so we could get this sit in tub out of the house.

The house was livable when we bought it but it was not at our standards.

We are tearing stuff out before we can start putting it back the way we want it.

God does that at times in our lives as well. Sometimes he has to tear things out of our lives that we have gotten used to, but are not His standards. We might be comfortable living with the sins we are enmeshed in until God comes along and says, this may be painful, but your life will be better with Me once I tear these things out of your life and replace them with something better. Don't underestimate the remodeling work of God in our lives.

 

Upgrade

We finished a house last week. I had scraped the house and primed the bare wood. First I was using a "Rose" primer till I ran out

 

Then I used an oil primer that had an interesting yellow color. matthew said it looked like the house had measels and was nauseous. 

Finished painting it. Looks better. The doors are painted "fire weed"

Even the kitchen turned out ok.

painted all the walls and was able to save all the oak flooring.

It turned out to be a pretty nice house

There was some doubt as to how long it would take to finish the house because it was a wreck when we purchased it.

The house was filthy and the owner appears to have been unable to throw anything away. He had sealed the house up too tightly so there was a moisture problem.

We didn't even have to discuss if we were redoing the tub and shower

New Tile and shower valve. Only way to go!

The man who lived in this house had tried to save by sealing up the house. I don't know what his issues were but he ended up livng in a house with a moisture problem, no hot water, piles of useless stuff and filth.

He tried to solve problems his way and it didn't work. Often we all try to fix our own lives and we can't. It is only when we turn everything over to God that God fixes our lives. That is easy to say but hard to do.