In the past year, our kitchen has been more of an appliance hospice than a place to prepare meals. The appliances were old when we bought the place in '91 and we haven't repaired or replaced any of them. It was just a few months before I started packing that all the machines started giving up: the dishwasher sounded like a rock tumbler.; the fridge leaked and left parts on the kitchen floor; the oven and stove kept their heat about as even as a pre-menopausal woman. All have now been scrapped except for the fridge~it's on our back porch as backup for our tiny RV fridge.
Last week, the guys finished removing the chimney and front porch area and demoed the utility room on the sound side of the house. They also stripped out all the electrical wires and plumbing. I put the chimney bricks on Craigslist and sold all but the broken ones. I LOVE Craigslist!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Digging and Demo
Pictures from last weekend:
Justin, Tom and Rich installing a support beam under breakfast nook.
Rich and Justin digging out where the new foundation will go under nook.
Tom, Rich & Justin up on the roof, knocking down the chimney.
I, too, did something pretty amazing last weekend. While going to bed Sunday night (in the RV), I fell into the kitchen sink. I was climbing the ladder to the bed and near the top I lost my balance. My right foot stayed on the ladder, but the rest of me swung back and my left foot landed in the kitchen sink. Then I just folded down into a sitting position and suddenly there I was, crouching in the sink. It happened in a slow and controlled kind of way and I wasn't hurt, just...well...awed. Even with hours of practice, I could never replicate that stunt.
Justin, Tom and Rich installing a support beam under breakfast nook.
Rich and Justin digging out where the new foundation will go under nook.
Tom, Rich & Justin up on the roof, knocking down the chimney.
I, too, did something pretty amazing last weekend. While going to bed Sunday night (in the RV), I fell into the kitchen sink. I was climbing the ladder to the bed and near the top I lost my balance. My right foot stayed on the ladder, but the rest of me swung back and my left foot landed in the kitchen sink. Then I just folded down into a sitting position and suddenly there I was, crouching in the sink. It happened in a slow and controlled kind of way and I wasn't hurt, just...well...awed. Even with hours of practice, I could never replicate that stunt.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Phase One Begins- Front Porch
Last week, Chris & Tony came by to start on the front porch.
Pictures: 1) Interior of west wall in livingroom.
This hopper window will be removed.
Pictures: 1) Interior of west wall in livingroom.
This hopper window will be removed.
2)Chris removing east livingroom window. This spot is where the new front door will be. This window moves to the west wall in livingroom, replacing the hopper window.
3) Tony cuts a new opening where the hopper window once lived.
4) Interior of window from picture #2 in its new home.
5) Our new view out the west window. You can see in the background where we put our old woodstove with our Buddha statue in it.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Gutting Downstairs
Our Honey Bucket arrived last Thursday~ which is a true sign that the remodel really has begun. Last weekend, Justin and Rich removed 5,540 pounds of lathe & plaster from the livingroom, office, bathroom & kitchen while Tom got all the interior trim removed, unhooked all the appliances & fixtures and did the dump runs. I got us moved into the RV last Friday and will probably be shuffling things around for the next few weeks.
We were really hoping to find a mummified pirate holding a bag of gold when we tore out the walls, but instead found 1925 & 1926 newspapers tucked into the wall studs, apparently to plug any holes. Aarrrg.
We were really hoping to find a mummified pirate holding a bag of gold when we tore out the walls, but instead found 1925 & 1926 newspapers tucked into the wall studs, apparently to plug any holes. Aarrrg.
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