I’ve got a [socket], got a [socket] full of…. {Demo Work}

I’m so excited to share our demo work progress with you!  We have been busy, busy, busy with lots of cleaning and prep work for the renovations.

Most of the things I’m working on now are super glamorous, like when I scrubbed all of the outlet covers throughout the entire house.  Or when I removed the outlet covers throughout the entire house…. and found a socket full of ladybugs, which is practically like having a pocket full of sunshine. Almost.  Thankfully, the ladybugs were dead {and they were ladybugs, not baby snakes or bedbugs or ….yuck.}.  For real though, I unscrewed that outlet cover and ladybug carcasses just started falling out on the floor.

The sellers of the house have rented it out for the last several years.  Since there have been renters, we kind of expect the unexpected…. typically, renters don’t treat a home as well as owners do.  When we toured the house, there was a mystery piece of plywood screwed to the bedroom wall.  We had no idea what we’d find behind the plywood.  Our best guesses were that someone made a large hole, then covered it up with the plywood, or that they mounted a TV to the plywood.  We removed the mystery plywood and found perfect drywall behind it – woop woop!  It looks like they just used it to mount a TV.  The light colored rectangle on the wall in the photo is where the plywood used to be.  Apparently the renters painted AFTER they hung things on the wall… and just decided to paint around them.  It’s pretty fantastic {sarcasm}.  Thankfully, we were already planning on repainting the walls a different color, so the creative paint job doesn’t really matter.