Week One!

I cannot believe that we have only owned our home for 9 days and already so much has been done to it.  Most people complain that their renovations are taking to long, however I am a little scared that it is happening so quickly.  My sweet mother is on her way to Nashville for the weekend to see the house and help out.  Hopefully by the end of the weekend we will have the paint colors picked out, selected the glaze for the kitchen cabinets, and weeded out the flower beds.  Then next week Travis and I have appointments lined up so by the end of the week we should have all of our finishes picked out.
I am excited that this project is moving forward but I do not know if I am ready to leave our townhouse.  This is the first home that we have had together and I have loved every minute of living here.  We have had some great memories here and it will be really hard when we leave this place.  We posted our townhouse for rent earlier in the week and have had several calls and two showings.  It would be great to go ahead and rent our place out so that we do not have to carry two mortgages until August.
I went by our new home today after work and at 6:00pm on a Friday evening there were several workers still hammering away.  I felt so guilty that they were working so late and also have to work on the weekends.  I am going to stop by and pick them up lunch tomorrow to thank them for the amazing job that they are doing.

Here is the progress from the first week.

By Tuesday evening they had the first floor of the addition framed out.

By the end of the week they had the addition walled up and the second floor started.

The desk and overhead cabinet has been removed to make room for our new cabinets which will include a wine refrigerator, this is my favorite thing that we are adding to the house!  Also the once cracked tile floors have been removed so we are able to add the new hardwood floors.

This closet was only accessible through the laundry room so a new door is being made to turn it into a pantry off of the kitchen.

The window was taken out and this is going to be the entrance to the addition.

This is one of the coat closets in the hallway.  Travis and I wondered why they removed the door, shelving, and molding since nothing needed to be done to this closet.  Turns out that there was a slight misunderstanding with the workers so they are going to put everything back in place.

The door on the left is the entrance to our new powder room.  The current powder room is the door on the right but we are moving this so we have more space in the new master suite.  Both the door on the right and in the middle are going to be walled up for the new master suite. 

The walls in the master suite have been taken down so we can reconfigure the space.  The room on the right hand side was the old powder room and this is going to be Travis's closet once it is finished.

The closet in the bedroom has been removed and this is going to be framed out for our shower in the master bathroom.

I was surprised when I saw this because I did not know that they were going to have to remove this.  The plaster was uneven so we will be replacing it with drywall.

The upstairs bathroom was gutted.

This had been a half bath off of the smaller bedroom  upstairs. It was an awkward design and we did not need a half bath so we had the bath removed and are turning it into a large walk in closet.  Hopefully we will have a daughter one day that will appreciate this large closet.

We are removing the current closet in the large bedroom upstairs and adding one to the other side of the room.  We realized that the current closet was not wide enough to hang clothes in and if we expanded it out it would have blocked the window.

Overall I feel like we have had a very successful first week.  I am excited to see the progress and hopefully we will have all of the finishes picked out next week.