The guest bedroom, destruction mode

Since Mom and Dad have helped us out so much with, well, pretty much everything, we thought we'd start our reno's in the guest room. They promptly dubbed it the Jimmamyville suite (its pronounced Jim- maim-y ville) for those of you wondering). In any case, we all know the first task of any good project is to rip everything apart. So we pulled off the vent covers,

The trim off the doors

And then we moved onto the closet:

Now we had planned to leave the casing up around the closet, but we measured everything up and realized that for the new closet doors we were planning, it was a little too wide (about 2 inches) and not tall enough (by about 2 inches). So we decided we'd take down the casing to see if we could bring it up to the specs we needed. 

And while we were at it, we decided we were going to completely redo the closet shelving as well. So all that had to go. 

And, just to make our lives even more fun, we decided to redo the baseboards and add crown molding. It was a tough decision on the baseboards, but after taking out the old registers and realizing that we could only get new ones in 24 inches instead of 25, we were going to have to recut and replace a good chunk of it anyway, so we figured we'd just go for it and replace the traditional stuff with clamshell to bring it back to the right era for the house.