Two Rooms Complete

Yesterday was a short day. I started to take out the kitchen cabinets but had to stop. Some genius ran electric wires right through two of the cabinet shelves. And I mean, drilled a hole in the shelf and there's electric lines running right through the wood. So I had to stop because I had no jigsaw to cut it out. The rest of the short day I took down slightly more bathroom wall. But I ran into a snag there too. The majority of the remaining wall is right behind the sink. We need to disconnect it to get the vanity and the wall out.


Though yesterday was a good day. We finally finally figured out a floor plan that we can both agree on. We've had a few people now tell us that doing a great room would be a good idea, so the living room, kitchen and dinning room would just be one big room. I didn't like the idea at first, mainly because there would be a big goofy chimney in the middle of the room. But once I started thinking about the idea it grew on me. The house is going to look smaller once we put walls back up. So why make the already small house seem smaller. Plus, with a great room we can have a bar. Yay! Here's the new layout.

So the areas would all be pretty much the same, but no walls and no pantry. I think we'll put in a pantry area in the basement with the freezer. We're going to brick up the chimney so the ugly cinder blocks aren't showing. And the front part of the house is going to be cathedral ceiling. The bar back will be regular height.

Today we took down the ceiling in the bedrooms and the hall completely. Now the bedrooms are done. And I mean done. 'What's left to demo in the bedroom?' 'Nothing, because they're done, baby!'

During the week I re-discovered a valuable tool for this project, the library. I checked about a few books on house design. Some of them have some really good ideas on projects. I'll post them as I go along.

We don't have that much demolition left: finishing the bathroom, taking down the hall closet frame, taking out the nails from the ceiling of the kitchen and living room, taking down the cabinets and taking down the retaining wall on the living room. We are estimating about two weeks of demolition left. Then we can actually start building. Happiness. Tony's going to call Mike this week about the electric work and show the house to Sam, the guy we are going to get to put the dry wall up. I'm very excited about making the place pretty!