Demolition Derby

The demolition is well on its way! We've been quite busy and every chance we get we rip apart our first floor. Thanks to the help of our house-mates Stephanie and Spencer and our good friends Nigel and Danielle, we've removed all the trim from doorways and windows, removed 2 walls, remove the plaster from an outside wall, and removed all the old kitchen cabinets. The only demolition task we have left is widening one more doorway on the 1st floor and makig a door in a closet and then cleaning out the basement (which we are doing in a week and a half with the help of several friends). We are very excited to get this stage over with since smashing things and having to protect your face with a mask and goggles in hot humid weather while dust and plaster flies at you can be very tiring and uncomfortable work. Well, enough talk, time for some pictures...




Here Danielle is just gettin started....








and this is a little later...




Here we are after just a few more days...and then Spencer and Steph doing a little more destruction.












And finally, here are some of where we are now...

The Demolition has Begun!

Sorry I've been idle for so long, I am just learning the ways of a blogger...Life has also been busy and has delayed our house plans for a bit...I've graduated...begun studying for the liscensure exam...hosted my parents for a week visit...and helped 3 friends move into our community house! Yup, we're up to 5 people now and I'm loving it...and we may soon in the fall be up to 8 people! So, as you can imagine we've realized we need to kick it into high gear with our renovation plans. So, while Austin was away having a grand ole time hiking and camping in the rain for 4 days, my house-mate Stephanie and I decided to take this demolition thing into our own hands. So, as you can see we put on some music, grabbed some crowbars and hammers, and begin ripping apart the old kitchen.

And we sure did a good job, except at the one point when we decided to unhook the sink and were spraying water everywhere. But after a quick trip to the hardware store and some thinking like a plumber, I fixed the problem and we are enjoying hot water again :-).

So, the journey has begun, I'll try to update more often with lots of photos :-)

-Missy