Man night

The previous owners were smokers so we knew the first thing that needed to happen was carpet, wallpaper, and curtain removal.  We were just nervous about what we would find behind and below.  The boys all decided they wanted to have a man night.  They bought a bunch of beer and I brought over pizza.  They got up to all kinds of shenanigans but when I stopped by the next morning everyone was hard at work. 

 The wall paper came down pretty easily, but

 so did a lot of the plaster coating.

This is just for one room!

 Then we had to decide if we needed a dumpster.  Turns out that is way easier to do than I thought.  We  called and one was in front of our house 3 hours later.  How's that for Saturday service?

Look at all the different colors!  If you can't tell there is green, blue, beige, and grey.

The boys were excited to rip up carpet.

With the dumpster ordered and the house clearly in good hands I went for a run.

  An hour later I returned to this!

Look at the difference!  The floors, aside from a bit of rotting upstairs near the tub looked great.

In case you didn't know this.  Carpeting used about a billion staples.

The light looks so nice on the lightened walls and pretty floors.

 Removing staples is very exhausting.

 Everyone took a nap to recover from the night before and wait till the dumpster arrived.

Thanks for all your hard work guys.  Next step, refinish the floors, and move in.