Learn-O-Rama

They knocked out the wall that blocked the view from the stairs to the sliding glass door, so now you can see the whole space. Same view, tw...

The vision: The reality: Here's what it looked like before demolition started: In just a couple months (we hope), the chilly toy pit wil...

Here are some photos of the master bathroom. The towel bar is a piece of driftwood from our first visit to California in 1996. Scott cut it ...

George the tile guy offered to trade jobs with me for a while. Under his supervision, I cut a hole in one of the tiles for our shower (the t...

It started to look a lot more finished when they got the walls up and the doors and trim done. Here's the progress in the girls' bat...

Here's the master bedroom and bath with the walls framed out.

Here's the future master suite. The workers knocked out the wall between two bedrooms and taped off where the new bathroom and closet wi...

Here are the before shots of our upstairs bathrooms. The wall between the two bathrooms was knocked out to combine them into a big hall bath...