Behind the scenes!

If you've only read about reno projects or seen them on TV then you might think (as I did) that you clear out an area and start working tidily and handily.

Not in this house. 

My whole life I have been known as Hurricane Danielle. I blow into a room leaving mess and destruction in my wake (I break or otherwise ruin, mar or damage all the things. Always.) 

Reno is particularly subject to this.  Exhibit A:

Front Hall Way

 Note that our coats and boots are piled up on the stairs and in the entry way.  We normally don't use the front entry way much and really only have a small closet there for guests' coats and shoes.

This is from the front hallway looking into the dining room which is currently storing our washer/dryer and playing host to a bevy of tools we have bee intermittently using and should have put away, but didn't.

The "great room" is also storing shoes and fabric laundry bags.

This is the hallway headed towards the kitchen.  That's the cabinet for the new sink just sitting there, getting in everyone's way. 

Finally: this is the hallway that opens up to the laundry room, powder room and garage.  We kept this area sectioned off from our site foreman (see below).

Could we be tidier? DEFINITELY.  It's certainly easy to let one little reno spill out into the rest of your house though.  I actually haven't even shown you the two areas hit hardest by Hurricane Danielle:  The garage and my bedroom where a veritable mountain of laundry is quite literally piling up.  

Please tell me I'm not alone in this and that your house is a disaster when you're working too!

UP NEXT:  I show you the progress on the laundry room and boy have we done a lot in the last few days but nothing was without some issue or another!  We'll talk about grouting, installing the sink and putting in the back splash!