More like Labor Day than Memorial Day!

We were lucky enough to have our older more-experienced-at-home-improvement-projects siblings -- Ernest from the Villanueva clan and Koko from the Okano clan -- give up their Memorial Day weekends to help us w/some manual labor on the Granny flat. (Or as Lola calls it, "the barn.")

Gumbo's sad that her futon/bed will be going away soon:


Our main goal was to rip out the non-working shower in the laundry area, cap the pipes and drywall/fix the floor.




After the demo:




Floor in!


Drywall in!


Linsey helped entertain Izzy by reading her lots and LOTS of books. :)


Marc got the deck prepped for some pressure washing:


Deck washed...and Gumbo's bed gone. :(


Our engineer siblings also fixed the electrical problems, and Marc & I worked on going through some of our JUNK and getting it better organized.

BEFORE:

(How have we accumulated so much crap over the years...?)

Messy closet:


Beautiful "AFTER" shots are coming soon...we're almost there!


We did give our workers a break on Memorial Day, even though it wasn't optimal San Diego beach-going weather.