"How you like me now?"

Demo-ing has quickly become my favorite new thing....seriously, what could be better than taking a hammer to drywall and ripping sh** up?  Um, nothing.  At least not in today's book.

Step one on day two....remove bathtub hardware:

Seriously, how gross is this shower?!  So happy to be getting rid of it.

Once the hardware was removed, we started ripping apart the drywall surrounding the tub and found another wonderful surprise from the previous home owner (who flipped our house).  No mold resistant drywall!  Ugh, don't even get me started on this guy.  You see, mold resistance dry wall is a must in areas where water is used a lot, a.k.a. the walls surrounding a shower.  Check out some happy time pictures below (not those kind, geeze):

And Matt cutting down the walls surrounding the ugly shower wall insert:

After cutting down those walls, we pulled and yanked, and shoved at the insert, trying to get it away from the wall.  And of course, the insert was not attached to any of the wall studs, only glued to the lip of the tub...way to go previous owner.  Fail.  So, once we realized we wouldn't be able to pull it away from the tub, we turned to my personal favorite method....bustin' sh** up.

And then......

Success!  Now, we realize this is probably not the best way to go about removing the insert, but it worked for us....we also did not have a reciprocating saw on hand.  Then finally, a few pulls later....

No more insert!  And for your enjoyment, you can see how excited I was to be able to see through the closet wall into the tub area:

After this, Matt was worried he was going to have to bust the tub apart with a sledgehammer because of some piping placement, but after going to borrow a sledgehammer from our neighbor Keith (who will probably have his own dedication post in the future...seriously, best neighbor ever), we learned (from Keith) that we only had to remove the pipe in order to get the tub out.  Which is exactly what Keith and Matt did while I watched and chatted with Keith's daughter.  Hey, I was supervising.  I forgot to get pictures of it, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Oh, and for the record....We realize that we don't 100% know what we're doing at every moment, or the exact terminology, but we're learning more every day and with each task we take on.  Think happy renovating thoughts for us! :)

~S~