I just can't stop staring at my beautiful gutted bathroom...

Yes, there I am, smiling from ear to ear because at that moment, we were more than halfway finished with the gut. In previous photos, you've seen that we've already removed all the old lino and the thin cheap plywood it was attached to. The old tub was removed and replaced around December of 2004, so you can see why I'm pretty excited about finally moving ahead with the rest of our bathroom plans. Today, we ripped out the old tile top vanity and cabinet, an annoying and useless partition/nook (which we discovered today used to hold a stacking washer and dryer), old lighting wiring, and the old drywall. The bathroom seems so much bigger already and we haven't even moved the toilet yet!

Another thing that we discovered after pulling out the old drywall is that there use to be an even bigger window in there than the one we pulled out. I joked to hubs that the window that was in that bathroom just kept getting smaller and smaller until finally it just disappeared! Normally, I like the idea of having a window in our bathroom, but we had to remove it due to the fact that it was awkward being able to see people in the bathroom from our new dining room window. Yeah, I know..we could have just put up curtains or blinds, but what's the point if they're just going to stay closed all the time?

Here are the bathroom demo pics. There's a funny story behind the picture of hubs bent down on the floor. Like I mentioned, another discover that we made when we pulled down the drywall was that the bathroom was also once the home of a washer and dryer. Imagine pulling down drywall and suddenly discovering the exposed end of the big fat wire that use to connect to said appliances. The PO had just left them like that in the wall and we had no idea if they were live or not. At this point, I decided to go get the camera to take a picture because for some reason I thought I should, lol. Hubs goes to get his electrical current reader meter thing-a-bob. When I came back with my camera, he's all bent down like you see him in the photo. As he attaches the meter clamps to the possibly live wire, I snap the picture, the flash goes off, and poor hubs thought he was being electrocuted! That really gave us both a good laugh and probably will for a long time to come:)