Here's a few quick pictures of the before, and progress we've made so far. In the week and a half since we got the house we have successfully: taken out all the old ugly (red, blue, gray, yellow) carpet in the house, taken down ugly wood panelling, scraped the floors (since for some reason the carpet was glued down), scraped all popcorn off of EVERY ceiling in the house (got muscles?), primed these ceilings, built parts of a wall (who likes a "drive through" window in the middle of their family room?), primed these walls, primed all doors, and textured the ceilings and new walls. As you can tell, this has been taking up every bit of spare time we have...we've been working away every evening after work, and during the weekends. It's coming together though! Last night was eventful, as we FINALLY got to the painting stage...I started paiting the trim! Also, we got the floors in for the living room, so as soon as all painting is done there, Ben can get started on installing the hardwood floors!! However, all of this has not happened without an accident...late saturday night Ben drilled a hole through his left index finger (and for your information: it was faulty equipment (not a clumsy Ben)...the drill bit actually broke off!)...the whole bit went straight through his finger...LOTS of pain, and LOTS of blood :( ... All I've got is legs in about 12 shades of blue...I have so many bruises haha!