Act One - continued (The Floors) - Labor Day!

[This post dates from September 4, 2007]

We continued to "labor" on this house this weekend, truly making the holiday live up to its name... :) (Somehow, I don't think this was how the weekend was intended...)

I was extremely blessed to receive additional man-power this weekend, in the form of a dear friend from my childhood who came to visit from the DC area - just to see me & my family and help my brother and I out with our house projects. Talk about a true friend! Thanks so much, Erik, and his friend, John, who also came to assist most of the weekend.

With Erik's & John's help, we finished laying the concrete board in the laundry area and kitchen, cut a hole to re-route the air vent that had been in front of the stairs, cut a hole in the ceiling of my pantry area and removed part of the rotten drywall and moldy insulation in that area, started sanding the floors in my bedroom (nearly done), and moved both of Nick's arcade cabinets from mom & dad's house up to his "den" in the second-story addition at the house. (Those things are HEAVY... poor kiddo's all bruised - but thankful that those behemoths are moved.)

I also spent pretty much all the rest of my "house budget" (a huge chunk came with the bathroom tiles) on a new ceiling fan for my office, a light fixture for the kitchen, a medicine cabinet for the main bath, and a corner vanity and medicine cabinet for my bathroom. We thought we might get the corner vanity & etc. installed this weekend... but quickly learned that the wall of the bathroom that adjoins the master closet is not exactly plumb. Upon further inspection, one can actually SEE that the wall slopes inward at about a ... what... 80 degree angle, perhaps? If you look at the tiles (I'll have to post a picture), you can see that there is a full tile at the bottom, and each level gradually tapers in 'til you get to the top tile, which is only a little more than half a tile. So, the question of how to install the new cabinet/sink is this... do we rip out yet another wall so that we can make the room have the appropriate 90 degree angles to the floor... or do we grind down the sides of my brand-new sink to "make it fit" the walls?