Sanding Floors= Bed

We've had a standing rule that we are not going to bring furniture up to the farmhouse until the floors are done. We are at just under 6 months of ownership, and that means six months of sleeping on air mattress... so this weekend we got to busy on the floors. Sanding floors is not an easy task. We purchased two belt sanders so that we can eventually do this together (with a munchkin it means that one of us has to be with her). On Saturday morning I made it around the edges of the room to remove the random old stain and paint.

Here is what the room looked like before...

 Sanding round 1 completed. Now we have to go over it with a finer grade of paper and do the entire middle...

We also pulled down the drop ceilings in the bathroom. This is what it looked like before...

 Pulling out the ceilings...

 I even helped pull out some of these...

 We also did some touch up work on the vanity...

 Drop ceilings are gone!

Now I'm on a rid the house of drop ceilings kick. Here's to hoping that the rest of the ceilings will be in this good of shape when we take down the crazy drop ceilings. In the bathroom alone this gave us an additional 3-6 inches (depending on the side of the room)