Den of Destruction

So after another weekend away, we made some progress on the house. We managed to demolish another wall in our scheme to make the entryway to the den bigger, and we did the demolition necessary to move the kitchen door. Now all that's left is reframing. Hooray! We also got the materials needed to start doing the ceiling joists, and hopefully we'll be getting the supplies to do our truss in the next couple of days. It will be so nice to take down all the random supports we have nailed in.

Here's the wall of the den, ready to be taken out. This is the original exterior of the house, which was pretty cool to see once we got all the crappy, white-painted wood paneling off.

Here's what it looked like once we got it out.

And here it is all the way out, from the view standing in the living/dining room.

The first permanent ceiling support went in, much stronger and better than the original, in our opinion. You also get an idea, hopefully, of how much taking out the walls expanded the space. Pretty much the entire den is open now, and the house feels less claustrophobic. What a difference!

And, finally, here's the final demo of the kitchen doorway.

We'll be moving the door all the way over to the right to give ourselves more counter space. We'll see how it goes. I should have taken some "before" pics, but I'm a bad blogger and am going to make you go fishing through the archives.

All in all, a pretty productive weekend.