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Hey, now we have the bones for a bar -- no more wall!!

So check this out!  We have a headerboard that goes across the span, and the makings of a half-wall / bar in our new footprint!  How great is that?!I didn’t really get to help as much as I wanted — what with the vapors, I was pretty miserable and Engineerboy was really worried.  I did eventually feel well enough to help, so I was doing light work like drilling holes and putting screws in but Scott was watching me like a hawk in case I decided to keel over.  It was like This Old House meets House!!! 
Anyway, I’m quite proud of our (Engineerboy’s) job, the headerboard is absolutely level,

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So Project Wall Remove proceeds.  It’s funny that we moved out of the Houston Heights into Brenham, only to be embarking on a quintessentially Heights-ian project of remodeling our 2/1 tiny bungalow on an undersized lot. 

The rerouted wiring behind the kitchen wall.

Today was spent with rerouting wiring (Engineerboy), cutting through wall (Engineerboy), and removing about 1 zillion nails (Mynagirl).  Oh and shop-vac’ing the hell outta the inside of what-used-to-be-a-wall.  (Including spider eggs, yuck!!) 

We learned that the kitchen floor is higher than the dining room floor because the kitchen has 3-count-them-3 layers of linoleum layed down on top of one another.  And there’s plywood underneath the 3 layers of linoleum on top of the subfloor in the kitchen.  I don’t know why, because it’s the same subfloor as in the rest of the

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Our sweet little cottage

One of the funny things about buying a “starter” home or a “fixerupper” is that it’s hard to get started. 
 
I can go with the flow in a lot of areas and be perfectly happy with temporary fixes, but when it comes to things that are permanent I don’t like to just make a hasty decision.  Nor do I like to make a cheap one.  Permanent things are worth a little money to get the thing that makes one’s soul smile a little.  Especially when it’s something as integral to your everyday life as your home. 
 
But it leaves me a bit poleaxed.  I mean, if the wall is crappy thrice-painted paneling with plastic trim, do I really want to slap another coat of paint on it just for

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