I didn't take a picture of where the footlockers were. We ripped them out (and found cement flower beds under them) and didn't replace them. This is the view into the kitchen and it shows what was once the cabinet in the hall. We replaced it with a secretary desk. Some day we'll hang a picture over the electrical panel.
The stairs down. No more wallpaper! That's one of my favorite parts of all of this.
Opposite wall (the wall where the fire started and the small counter was). Also totally different. There's our new fridge (I love freezers on the bottom!) and our rolling, cutting-board-topped cupboard. It holds the dishes, silverware and garbages.
Another view of that wall and into the dining room. The opening to the big cabinet above the old small counter got moved into the dining room.
The dining room. The door on the right is a little deceiving. It opens to the huge cabinet that was once in the kitchen (and is four feet off the floor), under that is the sloping ceiling of the stairs - and useless as cabinet space. Look! We replaced our buffalo picture with a buffalo picture! We also replaced our table with a counter-height one. Koda can't rest his head on it.
The fireplace - totally redone. We had hoped that the brick we exposed when we ripped out all the sheetrock would be pretty and we could leave just that (that's how our basement fireplace looks), but we were wrong, the had random wood slats and cinderblocks mixed in, so we covered it with stone.
The front room. We haven't replaced our couch or area rug (that money got used elsewhere), so it doesn't feel "done" yet. I LOVE my new player piano! I'm sure you'll also be pleased to hear that I love the color they stained the floor for us - we won't be refinishing our wood floor again for a LONG LONG time!!
This picture frame was a door/window in the master bedroom. We kept it and redid it.
Master bedroom. The painter told us we would hate having our walls such a dark chocolate brown and tried talking us out of it a few times. He was wrong. It makes for dark pictures, but we love it. We moved the bed to the wall on the other side of the window - only possible because we moved the door.
 The sitting area (a step down from the rest of the master), and now both of our closets. This side is mine. Messy, I know. But at least there's not a door in the back of it anymore!
Looking in to Curtis' side of the closet (and the laundry baskets). The TV was our Christmas gift to us last year.
The other side of the wall with the mirror - the rest of Curtis' closet.
Where Curtis' closet used to be. Getting rid of it really opened up the room, and we were able to move the door into it so it's more out-of-the-way now too. It used to be on the wall just right of where it is now.
The vanity (aka, the old coat closet). My "getting ready" space where I won't be in anyone's way. Notice the foot space under the counter is smaller than the head space above it - that's where the wood storage cubby cuts in.
The sinks. One kid-sized and one adult-sized. I had to find smaller-than-normal sinks to accomplish that. I love KSL classifieds!
The door across from the sinks. It's the toilet room. It's where the tub used to be.
The toilet and tub room doors, as seen from the vanity.
The tub room. The door is a double door (although on of them is VERY narrow) so we can open it up into the rest of the room when we want to. We used a curved curtain rod to make the shower feel bigger.
The smaller-than-normal tub. :) Davis loves baths and is a little too eager to get in sometimes. The drain on this tub uses the same drain hole that the old toilet used. The soap dish is basically where the toilet paper holder once was.
Just right of the tub (still in the tub room). This is what is left of the medicine cabinet/mirror that was over our sink. We still need to finish it somehow.
And downstairs. Everything except the ceiling looks exactly the same. The ceiling down there is lower than normal, so we decided to take out all the old light fixtures while they were redoing the ceiling (because of water damage) and put in can lights instead.
Note the missing paint where the decorative "beams" used to go. :) We'll have to redo that someday too.
This is the bathroom downstairs. It was like the rest of the basement and didn't change, but we recently started to change it ourselves. Out with the old sink and too-big light fixture. No new mirror yet...
Out with the old toilet and flooring. No floorboards yet...
Out with the old wallpaper and in with new white paint... wait, it's not white? That's what we said when it dried. It's this weird almost mustard greenish-yellow color. We'll see if we keep it or not. Also notice the hole in the wall where the toilet paper holder once was and the fact that the cabinet isn't finished yet... it's still a work in progress.

As soon as we had gotten all of our property itemized and thrown out they started ripping everything out.
This was the kids' first time back in the house since the fire. The doorway and window you see here are the ones that were in the back of my closet (as seen from the front room), we had just taken the door out and framed the wall back in, the window is still inside the wall.

While we were living in someone else's house, whenever we said we were "going home" the kids would ask if we were going to the "burned house" or the "new Todd's house" (That's what they called it, but it wasn't Todd's! He's a guy in the ward whose name they know.). The kids still sometimes refer to our house as the "burned house" although they usually say "but it's fixed now".
We found out our ugly wallpaper wasn't just one layer thick!
And our ugly carpet had ugly linoleum under it too. When we ripped out the foot lockers in the toy room we found out they were covering old cement planter boxes. We knew that wall used to be the outside wall before they built the toy room addition (hence the brick wall) and there are still cement planter boxes adjacent to these ones just outside the current front/side door, but we didn't know these ones were there!
From the front room looking into the hallway to the bedrooms - you can see the kids' room in the back, mostly untouched. After the demolition Curtis and his dad and grandpa came in and moved around/got rid of a couple of walls and doorways, like the doorway to our bedroom and the hallway between the kitchen and bathroom.
Then a crew came in and painted everything with an oil-based paint to keep the smoke smell in.
There were a few things we decided to do ourselves to save money. We weren't able to do everything we could have done because then we would have slowed the project down and we were excited to get back in, but we did do some things. We decided that rather than buying linoleum and paying someone to come lay it (which is what the insurance would cover) we'd take that money and buy tile and lay it ourselves (to come out about even and still get an upgrade). So here we are laying the cement board for the tile.
We know how to paint and could have done it all ourselves, but the contractor's painters could do it weeks faster than we could have (they were done with the whole house in 2-3 days), since we still had kids and work. So we chose one room to paint ourselves (it would have cost way too much to do what we wanted done in there) - the toy room. Curtis also replaced the windows himself, with his dad's help.
Here's the new kitchen cabinets coming in. And you can see our tile work.
And our tile work in the bathroom. You can also see our short tub! We completely changed the layout of our bathroom and ended up not having space for a traditional tub. If we hadn't needed a tub (how else are you supposed to wash a baby?) we would have put in a shower, but instead we ended up finding a tub that's a foot shorter than traditional ones.