We closed...let the cleaning begin

So we closed today finally an we got the keys at 4:00...them promptly changed the locks. Then it was off to Home Depot for a few items - trash bags, another dust mask (the one we got was too small) a prybar and a few hammers. Since so much happened, here is a breakdown of the good we discovered:


The built in china cabinet still has one on upper and one lower door, and it has the neatest cupbord latch I have ever seen, it matches the doorknob plates. The bad news is that there is only one remaining - the other three are long gone.






Here is a view of the full room now minus that nasty wall, and of my handsome husband swinging a crowbar.






Here is a shot of the pocket door we muscled out of the wall in all its yellow glory. The living room side is a delightful shade of baby blue.






Now here is the not so nice things we discovered ( I will spare you the nasty images).
The crappy wall that we tore down had not one, but at least THREE rats nests, along with discarded boxes of TV Dinners, Mac and Cheese. Paper Plates, and to wash it all down a Shasta Cola Box stuffed in the wall - No wonder there are rats in the attic! We also discovered that the bathroom floor is worse than we thought, as it has rotted all the way through. someone had asked me if you could get to the basement from the house and well, I guess you can if your not careful.
Next on the agenda is to pull up the floor in the dinning room, hallway, and bathroom, and start scrubbing the kitchen, which has awesome water pressure (new copper plumbing) and very hot water - The water heater shed just needs a door... Details right? Also I hope to get glass cut for the windows so it actually looks like somone could live there.
On another note, Velma has let me down - I never heard from her so I made a few phone calls and found the commode of my dreams at Orchard Supply Hardware, for $140 no less... The only catch is that the closest Orchard is 90 miles away, BUT there is one in Long Beach near our house there. So, for some reason yet another bath fixture is being imported. Got to keep up with the neigbors don't ya know....