House photos

L: Will you come help me?
J: Ok.
Step on this.
Ok. [steps] What was that that just shot at my face?
A nail
Updated. More photos from Saturday (and Sunday, now). More discussion below.

House acquired, demo begins

Happy tofu-turkey day!  We closed on the house on Tuesday and got the keys Wednesday.  We started working around 3:00 yesterday and put in an long day; I think we got home around 11:30.  I had rented a steamer from Home Depot and we took down about a hundred fifty million miles of wallpaper, most [...]

Impending house

Everything seems set for us to close on Tuesday, which is great since we’ll have an extended weekend to destroy stuff. Unfortunately there was another prospective buyer lined up behind us, so the seller had no motivation to take care of any of the repairs. (They actually offered us $10,000 to let [...]

House update

The whole house thing seems to be moving along…