This is a huge step.  This is our sneak peak of the look and feel of the house without being able to see through all the walls.  It feels bigger and brighter!  We should be painting within a week.
 
Because we had to replace the plumbing anyway, we decided that we would prepare for a new tile shower stall.    Once we started looking around at the holes in the walls that had to be patched anyway, we decided it was time to completely renovate the bathroom now too.
 
 
In order to do a new brick layer we had to clean up the existing surface.