"I get by with a little help from my friends..."

Saturday was the day that we got the most accomplished, to date! Susan and Corey came by to lend a helping hand, and we got the upper kitchen cabinet cases off the walls, readying the walls themselves for demolition. Here is the "Nail that held the house together". And, here is the first hammer to the wall...bye bye plaster! (and glue, and rot, and mold and bad old patch jobs).

Next on the list was to demo out the closet in the master bedroom, ready to frame in the 2nd bedroom into a master closet for our room and a large walk-in "butler's pantry" (I'm using that term because Warren's parents do...but where is our butler? Jeeves? Where are you?) The second bedroom was somewhat useless, being very tiny, so we bit the bullet and changed our 3 bedroom/1 bathroom into a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom (well, the second bath will be added in a few weeks after our new roof is installed. When I say "a few weeks" I mean "sometime in the future, I really have no idea") plus a large working pantry and usable closet. Apparently ladies in 1945 did not have nearly as many shoe boxes as I do, and only needed space for 4 plates and a frying pan. We need some space! So Larry and Warren made some space! They are striking what is now known as the "Daddy Said..." pose. If you want to learn more about that phrase, come over any day to work on our house and we can educate you. You may turn in to an Electrical Genius when the day is through.

Larry schooled Warren on the art of framing before he had to take off for the day, and lucky for us Holland and Andrew arrived just in time. Andrew helped Warren bust out the framing for the Master Closet/Butler's Pantry. I dig the Ray Ban's.

Susan was able to get through the wall from the bathroom to the kitchen...Hello! We are replacing the walls in both the kitchen and the bath, they were both damaged beyond repair when we took the paneling off. I believe the previous owners just slapped up paneling any time there started to be an issue with a wall. Paneling = Band Aid in this house. Well, till now. We like to just scrap all walls that are damaged, or that have WEEDS growing inside of them! I was getting through the wall in the kitchen that backs up to the yard, and found dead weeds growing up through. Nice. The demo continued all day, with Andrew figuring out how to work "smarter not harder". He really sped up the demo process.

Warren to Holland: "Your man is a machine!"







Here is our kitchen as of now!

And, we can't leave this part out...the bars are off the windows! Neighbors stopped by in the evening to congratulate us on the new look. Corey spent a good part of the day power washing the front of the house and taking bars off windows, and one neighbor didn't even know there were those sassy 70's rocks on the front of the house until now, they'd been covered in dirt and overgrown ugly Bird of Paradise and Rubber Tree plants. Thankfully Ron has better landscaping ideas than that! I am going to start staining the rocks with better colors, and hopefully we can get started on painting the house soon! And new windows. And get the landscaping started. And the new roof. And paint the picket fence white. And. And. And. And. And........