Getting everything out of the way!

After much pain and suffering, the renovation of our home, has begun. Laura and her cousin Robin spent three hard days Monday Tuesday and Wednesday last week packing up everything from our master bedroom closet, master bathroom and master bedroom.

Thursday morning with the help of some friends from church everything was moved into a POD that is now residing in our driveway along with a dumpster and the porta-potty!

The contractor has wasted no time in getting everything demo'd!! Sometimes, Laura is frantic because he is working faster than she can get things done. Now, everything is successfully out of the bathroom area. We also have a major hole in the garage where the elevator pit will be. Here are a few pictures of what has been done:

One of the best parts of the project for Laura,

is that the bathtub which she hated is gone!

This area used to be the linen closet,

shower entrance and part of our closet.

A couple of pipes in the way

of the elevator that have to be moved.

The hole for the elevator pit, it worked out very well
since everything that had to be dug was a gravel.

The Way Home!

After three years at Oaklawn, Laura and I decided that it was time to push forward. What that actually entailed, we weren't sure, but we looked for contractors, fiddled with remodeling designs and went into every patio home development in Jefferson County. We finally decided that remodeling was going to be the simplest and quickest solution. We condeeded that we weren't ready to downsize now and that most of the patio homes we found would have also required changes to make them accessible for me and building a new patio home was too costly and time comsuming.

The first contractor we were worked with, changed course on us several times so we decided to change contractors. This was obviously very frustrating because it left us with a great deal of lost time and extra, unexpected costs. We're now working with a different contractor who comes highly recommended and who recently did a major kitchen renovation project for a friend of mine. Hopefully, we will have the good results that we originally expected. So far, so good!