Day 17: what now?

So I haven't posted anything for over a week now! The thing is after seeing the gutting process, changes are not nearly as dramatic now. During the last week I actually have been really busy trying to decide on the tiles, choosing the exact toilet, sink, faucets, lightings... Aside from shopping, I need to decide where to put the lights, how high, how many, where to put the sockets, how to mount the fan. What color cabinets? How many shelves in the living room? Too many questions and way too many decisions. At this point I started wondering about why I'm doing this renovation myself. In fact, at least 3 or 4 of you have been asking this question. Apparently for those who have not been in my house, or even for those who have been, you seem to think that the old house was just fine. Well, I cannot say that it was uninhabitable, but there were so many problems in the kitchen, in both bathrooms and many of the walls with big cracks on them. The fridge had been broken for over a year; the stove top had been an issue almost since the first day I moved in; there were loose tiles here and there; the cabinets started to fall apart; the showers were abysmal; the walls had nasty looking cracks... Of course what began as a kitchen and bathrooms renovation evolved into removing walls, removing doors, changing layout, but I guess once you started thinking about a project it's so easy to keep adding changes onto the list. Am I having some sort of "buyer's remorse?" Hmmm


The next stage of the project is to put in rough-in for the showers and other plumbing work. The electrician is going to lay down all the wirings and clean up the existing ones. The floor guy is busily trying to level the ground before installing the new floor. After pulling out all the tiles, the floor is full of glue and other debris. It's a lot of work to chisel, to sand, to smooth out!!! I do have 2 pictures to show here:

New beam support across the new opening.

New concrete in part of the floor, it was simply too uneven.