Demolition: It's what's fun on a Friday night!

We’ve been waiting for this day for a while, and now it is finally here.  Time to demolish the wall between the existing house and the addition!  (My son had actually removed all of the old exterior siding the weekend before.  Pictures below.)

I got a text from my husband Friday afternoon asking if I wanted to rip out a wall that night.  What girl says No to that?!  I brought in a shelf from the carport and transferred the important kitchen and pantry essentials to the hallway—a minor inconvenience with a huge pay off later.  The kids helped me empty cabinets, stowing mugs, glasses, plates, etc. in boxes, storage bins, laundry baskets, stacks on the dining room table… Really, wherever there was room.  I made sure that the toaster and Crock Pot were accessible since these would be our primary means of cooking for the next several days.

By the time my husband got home, we were ready to get to work.  We ate dinner, let the kids put on a movie, draped the openings to the kitchen to keep as much dust as possible out of the main part of the house, and got to it.  A few hours later and it’s no longer “the house” and “the addition”.  Now, it’s all one space—one very dusty space, but one space nonetheless.

My pantry and kitchen essentials relocated to the hallway.

One last look at the old kitchen from the inside.  Can't wait to see it go!

Old mouldings being removed.  Those are the original windows from the late 1930s--not safety glass--so we took them down as carefully as possible so as not to pay another visit to our local ER.

Windows safely removed.  Shiplap exposed on the right.  I'm still not sure why it's green.  I don' t think it's paint.  It is remarkably dusty and kind of gross though.

Window frames out--lots of dust, bug parts and other gross stuff in...  It's a trade-off.  Thank the Lord for ShopVacs!!

Wide open space!!  It feels HUGE in here now!