Things Aren't ALWAYS as they appear (or how we were told they were!)

This house......we love it, but ever since we purchased it 8 years ago, we find more things that were not "quite" the truth about it.  Like the giant picture hanging on the landing wall going upstairs.  It was there when we looked at it, and there the day we moved in.  It wasn't til I moved it that we realized it was covering a moldy wall and the water pipes behind the wall were leaking.  Or all the light switches and outlets that seem to go to nothing!!  Anyway, we knew that the house had been added onto in 95 and that the original part of the house had been completely redone at that point to.  We had been told the walls had been gutted down to the studs and then sheetrocked!  Well, we had to get a new furnace in November.  We discovered at that time that we didn't have an adequate cold air return (we had no idea) and needed to put a new one in.  So Jason finally got around to it this weekend.  This is what we found when he cut the sheetrock off

Isn't that wallpaper lovely!!  Guess maybe the walls weren't gutted, huh!  Anyway along the way Jason did aquire is own assistant in the project...

Carter had a lot of fun helping daddy!  Jason held the screwdriver while Carter hit it with a hammer to knock out the lath behind the plaster!  In the end the two of them did a really good job and we now have a correct cold air return!!