If only our house was a doll house.

We're going to lose our hurrah when we run into unexpected events in the house,  they're becoming second nature!

We started ripping up our third floor bathroom, it all started because the toilet needed new parts put inside of it. The parts didn't fit, so we broke down and bought a new toilet. Which, likely is a brilliant idea when I start to imagine how many people have crapped in the toilettes in the house. sick. Then it turned into having to rip out the one, two, three, four, five layers of different kinds of floors, to find that the very bottom was rotten. joy. 

While working on this bathroom, it kind of gave me bathroom fever. We have this HUGE handicap accessible bathroom on the second floor, which I will, forever as it exists, tell you when I show you, it's there for when Rick gets real old and I have to wheel him into the shower. :) But, it's location happens to be right behind the makeshift wall which, whichever genius decided to build for a hot water tank closet. Our house is built based off an octagon. Our house has been butchered into a whole different layout for the dozen or so disabled folks who once lived in the house. So when Rick and I got to thinking about why the things were the way they are and how they might had been before, out came the hammer. We tapped holes into different walls to figure out that the hot water tank closet, which was once the entrance to a bathroom room likely a guest bathroom, and the bathroom in the master bedroom and the not so blue room are all connected. Ta-Dah! You should and can, and will be able to walk in a full circle through the second floor of the house. We haven't even gutted enough walls yet to walk though to each room, unless you're one of the cats, but I keep finding myself getting lost in the house all over again. Ha. 

So because of this discovery, mixed with our frustrations with all the work it's taking us to just pee in the third floor bathroom, and Rick's friend Carlos telling us just move to the second floor. (Our master bedroom) We've decided to rearrange the house. Our third floor master bedroom suite idea, thrown out the window. Our huge homemade bed unscrewed dragged down stairs and put back together and now sits in the former TV room. 

We're not quite set on what we're going to do now with the rest of the house, we have an empty room on the third floor, and a need for a TV room, but we sure as hell are not going to drag the couch up to the third floor. ( Rick, when you read this, remember I REFUSE to move that thing up those stairs.) 

Oh and we've gotten two sheets of dry wall up on the blue room. Ha, we're moving at snail pace, and it doesn't help that my dream of being a total bad ass with the power drill, isn't coming into fruition so awesomely.

Panorama Pictures if you click on them! 

This is the pathetic master bathroom. In front of the sink, if you were looking at the mirror that we pulled off, the other side of the wall, is the handicap bathroom and to the right where the shower is, is where the entrance from the hallway to the bathroom once was and is now a hot water tank room.

This is the wonderful handicap bathroom! The wall directly in front, if you could see through it would be looking over the sink of the master bathroom.{above} The big old hunk of wall right behind/next to the shower holds some of the hotwater tank room.

Hot water tank room! 

You can see the hole that's been started, and see into the handicap bathroom!

There's also a bunch of huge not duct taped together plastic air duct tubes in there too. Yay, energy efficient. ha.