We have come so far!

Working on the house has come down to the floors. When we bought the house we essentially thought we would pull up the carpet lay new flooring, paint the walls, refinish the cabinets and move in. As you are now aware we pulled up the carpet and then we also had to pull up the floor beneath that, and had to Kilz the floor, and replace the bottom 2 feet of dry wall in some spots, clean all the walls, sand the hair out of the paint, re-texture the walls, paint the ceilings, fix the bullet hole patches,  refinish the cabinets and vanity, lay new subfloor, cover every surface with paint and new flooring and out new light fixtures everywhere, put light fixtures in the bedrooms where non existed before and we replaced the fireplace with a more efficient version and a prettier surround!

Those odd stairs to no where. We took them out hung new joists on hangers and put down subfloor so when we got to flooring we could have one seemless open space. Fixing the stairs to no where:

Regular fireplaces are like a giant hole in your house. They set a nice mood but they are super inefficient. We replaced ours with a new insert so that we could use that heat to help keep the house warm.

We took down the dry wall to find some rotten boards.

After removing the fire place we found that the chimney was leaking so we had to fix that and then replace the rotten boards after which we insulated and dry-walled this whole area.

Finally it was time to put the insert in since everything was leak free, dry and not rotten.

I retextured the part that needed to be painted because it will show outside our surround:

Hearth stones came in so we put them down for a fire barrier

Dad and Tom have started on the surround but more on that later!

We decided on carpet for 2 of the bedrooms (master and guest room):

I designed the master closet, and Dad and Tom installed it. It turned out great (and there is a shot of my $3 thrift store chandelier that I refinished)!

Guest room has a new ceiling fan as well and carpet and curtains.

Finally on to the new floor for the living/dining/kitchen and craft room. We went with laminate cause we got a fantastic deal on a Shaw 20 year laminate and it turned out gorgeous! 

Still left on the list of things to do was finish installing trim, put up the fire place surround, run a gas line so we can install the drier and stove and order new countertops and install backsplash and a myriad of other little odds and ends to fully complete the house.
A little sneak peak at the dinning room for you: