If you give a mouse a cookie, likely half the first floor will get ripped out

We've done quite a bit around the house.  Clearly blogging about it took a back seat.  I will be the first to admit that having a baby, re-doing a house and trying to do day to day life isn't the easiest.  Now we've thrown in a pandemic.  We have been all at home together since March 16 and it is slowly starting to wear us all down and we have gotten a few things done but not nearly as much as we would like.

Around the time I was 4 months pregnant the drain literally fell off of our main shower and flooded out our basement.  It turns out that the previous owners had jerry rigged a fix and to fix it again at the minimum the shower floor would need to be ripped out.  This turned into half of the main floor being ripped out due to very much "if you give a mouse a cookie" situation. 

It went something very much like this: if we were ripping out the floor then we mind as well just re-do the entire bathroom.  And if you're ripping out the bathroom then we should just split it in half as like the end goal.  And if we're splitting it in half then we will need the master bathroom entrance so we will have to re-frame the master bedroom.  And if we're reframing the master bedroom then we will have to re-frame the hall.  And if we're re-framing the hall then we mind as well rip the flooring out.  And if we rip the hall floor out then we will also have to re-do the dining room.  And if we re-do the dining room then we should just re-do the entry way too.  And this is how half of our main floor got ripped out.

The bathroom that started it all

The original hallway

We redid flooring here and changed the doorways and added a linen closet.

Can't wait to clean this up, but for now it's doing its job just fine.

And how our front hall looked when we moved in versus now

                           

Since we only ripped up half the house we still are in progress with the living room.  We are planning on cutting the wood floor into the hex tile as we did on the other side and JR rebuilt the coat closet.  Still to come also is painting the front doors.