Stripping the old bathroom & hallway

While the boys were busy working down in the "man cave", Mrs Boss and I began to strip the bathroom of it's belongings aka tiles, bath and vanity.

Bathroom before:

No sooner than we started, we run into a problem. The tiles were not tile cemented to the cement sheeting, they were liquid nailed to it. Making the job of removing them a lot more difficult. The more we tried to carefully hammer and chisel them off, the more we kept accidentally putting holes into the cement sheeting.
 
We decided it would be easier to remove the cement sheeting completely and start all over.
So in came the big gun boys to do all the rough stuff.

Boss Junior  working on removing the bath

 Bath ready to be removed from the bathroom

  

 Bath completely removed

Boss Junior worked with Miss J and I to remove the tiles from the floor of the bathroom and from down the hallway.

 Boss Jr. & Miss J hard at work on the hallway tiles

 

YAY!!! Almost finished.

Have you ever stripped a bathroom or removed tiles?

The Castle is officially our own!

On 1 July 2011, the settlement was granted for our first house. In the past it was something we had only ever dreamt of - owning our own house. We never even gave a thought about renovating especially with a young child. We know other people do it but we just didn't think we would have the patience or knowledge to be able to. And to be completely honest, we really still can't believe that we are.

Here is a rough plan of the house "before" - keep in mind this definitely isn't to scale one bit but atleast you'll have some idea of what we are talking about in our posts. :) 

The house was originally built sometime around the 1950's. Maybe earlier or maybe later, not really sure.

The Castle's exterior is a white vinyl/plastic cladding or siding.


It has an enclosed porch entrance, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, kitchen, small bathroom, small laundry with an extra extra wide hallway.

To the rear of the block, there is a single car shed, an old shack which might have been an old laundry, a garden shed, outdoor toilet, large clothes line, a mature lemon tree & an overgrown wattle. And a bunch of weeds.


Alot of work but even more potiential.

Our castle

Enclosed porch entrance

  Bathroom

Laundry

Kitchen & Dining area

 Lounge room

 Part of the backyard

So that's our castle.

This is our first blog, so let us know what you think.