What the....?!?

Sometimes I wish I could find the previous homeowners and ask them "What were you thinking!?!"  There are so many strange things in this house.

Great dry-walling job!  Looks like we're done here...

The crawl space filled with garbage.

2x2 walls

Electrical nightmares

Using dry-wall mud on paneling

The house is less than a mile from the dump, yet there were more than 4 garbage piles out back

Every day is an adventure with this house.  Every time we pull something up or remove something we find another nice little surprise left for us by previous owners.  This weekend we were able to remove a large ugly beam in the kitchen.  It was made of 2x6s.  We originally thought it was a support beam, but on further inspection found out it was covering up the tops of some 2x4s where a wall was removed.  Instead of cutting the 2x4s flush, they left some hanging and attached 3 2x6s.  In reality, the beam has just been weighing down the ceiling instead of providing support.  

In progress.  

You can also see in the picture a piece of dry-wall was removed where we will be moving our door to.  The bathroom will be where the door is now, so we need a new location for the side door.  After checking this spot out, we found out it will work, but we will be removing a bit of random lumber from the wall first.

I'm sure there will be many more surprises to come.  We enjoy just about every minute of it and it will be worth it in the end.  But there are definitely moments where you have to wonder, "WHAT?!?"