Beware the wrath of rugs!

Well, more accurately, the wrath of carpets. On Wednesday night, Aaron and I continued our enthusiastic demolition of the house by removing all the carpets and carpet padding. Silly me didn't think that I might need a dust mask while removing very old, very water damaged material. I woke up the next morning in pure sinus hell. Aaron, being exposed to far worse at work (where they don't wear masks, but probably should!), had nothing more than a tickle in his throat. As I type this, my sinuses are still suffering from my miscalculation, but I managed to feel human enough to drag myself back to work. If any co-workers thought I was skipping out to play with the new house, my current state should show them I most definitely wasn't faking illness! But enough about my misery, here are some mildly-interesting pictures of our progress:

Here is the padlock Aaron had to cut off the garage door. The brainiacs who foreclosed on the house put the lock on to bar unauthorized access, but didn't bother to give anyone the key so the eventual rightful owners could actually open it back up:



Before and After of the livingroom - ugly curtains be gone!

Now just imagine that kind of transformation in every room and you'll have an idea of what we've done. We've also since removed any old hooks or curtain hangers and taken off the outlet covers in preparation for the patching and priming we hope to accomplish this week/weekend.

Aaron also spent nearly all of Sunday constructing a super insulated insert for our attic hatch, which was previously uncovered. Since the recent balmy weather was making a quick retreat, Aaron decided he didn't want to heat the roof anymore.

Also a happy note - turns out the seller's lawyer is better at math than our lawyer, because we did indeed overpay at closing. It's nothing monumental, but we've got a check for $45 and a check for $231 heading our way - cool, paint money!