Shazam!

No notebook blogger today, I have been using my breaks in class to work on an estimate for an addition, more on that at a later date, so I have did not have a chance to write anything up, besides nothing much exciting happened anyway. :p In the meantime, long time readers of the blog probably remember the dumpster house, full of trash and everything else. Well it has been slowly coming along in it's fix up but since it is almost finished now, I figured I would post some new pictures.

As much as I like the red door on my apartment, this orange one tops it IMO

Remember this?

Sadly the spiral staircase had to go

Old vs. new kitchen

This is the same room:

I am only posting this bathroom picture because I think the sink is awesome...

Going upstairs:

bamboo mini fence in back

The Treasures of Work

Here is the dumpster early yesterday morning before we started emptying out the house:

...and here it is 8 hours later. The good news is we cleared that whole dumpster out of the house! The bad news is we still have at least another half a dumpster to go before it is fully cleaned up!

Some "after" pictures:

While a hundred times better, there is still some work to be done....

In answer to the question put forth from several sources, here is some stuff I found while digging through the mess:

Not that exciting eh? There was actually so much stuff we were clearing out, it just was hard to sift through it in search of things....We had wheelbarrows and a shovel and were literally shoveling the stuff from the floor to the wheelbarrow and then dumping it in the dumpster. Somethings of interest found, Maglite 3-D-Cell Flashlight, boy scout badges from the 1960-70s, some political pins, a silver tray, two Daniel Boone style jacket/shirts:

Those are actually pretty cool, except they are both way too small in the sleeves. There was also a collection of road signs which to the horror of my mother I plan to decorate my walls with. :p

Probably the best find was an 8-setting china set, minus salad plates and bowls:

My mother who knows about such things as china, informed me that it is actually very good china and is made by the same company that made hers...I personally think the pattern is a little too colorful and flowery, but my mother really likes it and said I should keep it because my future wife probably will too. So that is a roundup of house cleaning...There is still much to be done in way of clearing out, we just ran out of room in the dumpster!

Dumpster diving, house style!!!

Today, I will be cleaning out a house that is in a word, chaos. Complete and utter chaos! Recently at work we have started buying foreclosed homes, fixing them up and then reselling them. That is actually how I got involved with my apartment I have posted about. Anyway we recently got a house that is a disaster inside, there is literally stuff everywhere! I am serious when I say you can hardly walk around without stepping on piles of junk. These are some some "before" pictures I took a while back:

Oh yeah! :D Going have some fun clearing this stuff out! :p While I do like clearing out houses like this, it would just be another day of work and probably not half as fun if not for the fact that anything I find I get to keep!!! Anyone want a boat that is missing the motor? Trailer included! :D