Making Progress

Today was a half day of hard work. Our goals were to take down the exterior walls in the living room and then measure up the house. For the first time since we began our project we actually managed to accomplish what we set out to do. I also discovered that the bathtub is a claw-foot tub! I am not sure what we will do with it, but I am looking at how to restore it. I think it would be neat to keep some of the original character of the house.
Here are some pictures to show you the progress of the house from the beginning until today.

Pictures taken from the front door.

Both of these pictures were taken from the kitchen entrance.

Here is the beautiful brick we discovered behind the plaster. I also know exactly where our clock is going to go! :)

The tub. I have to take all the stuff off the top. After that, we will see what kind of shape it is in.

Here are the boards from the walls. There will be more to come.

Surprise x2

Today as we were taking down the ceiling in the attic, we pulled down a piece of plywood that was covering an additional tray ceiling. Something was hiding in the tray. A pack of condoms. So Deona and I got down to work and finished taking down the ceiling. The condoms, we threw away. After a little while, we discovered the second surprise. Mortgage papers, and not our mortgage papers. They belong to the previous owner.
We lied, there is one more surprise. This is the bonus surprise for all the readers out there. As we were taking the plaster off of the wall in the family room, we were lucky enough to find the brick chimney covered by plaster. Now we have to find a way to plan our house around this architectural feature.
Here are a few of the pictures from our day's work.

Eating lunch in the sunshine!

The stairs. The more we take down, the more we realize how much we need to fix.

The attic

This is what it looked like at the end of the day.You can see the exposed brick chimney that is still half covered in pink plaster.