Original Imitation

The weekend before Halloween, after we tore up the floor for where the fireplace and built-in bookshelves will be, we decided to knock out the window in the nook. This window isn't an actual window to outside - it's a leftover from when the nook actually DID look outside southward, before the sun porch was built out. The window was boarded up, but the outline of it remained, which was strange.

We decided long ago to keep the window there, and open it up again for use as a pass-through. We thought it would be a cool way to keep an aspect of the original house and also open up our space a bit. So we opened it up to see what it would look like.

Here's from the nook side:

And from the dining room side:

We liked the way it looked quite a bit, a lot more than we thought we would, so out came the rest of the paneling.

As we were doing the demo, we realized a lot of the members were really cracked or sort of rotting, so we took a few out. Then we took a few more. And then we realized we really should just take the whole wall out. I don't know how this keeps happening to us. We thought this wall would be quick and easy because we only needed to remove a few things.

Not so. Here's the nook with everything removed. This wall will eventually be between the table in the nook and the table in the dining room.

We ended up tearing the window completely out, and then RE-framed the window.

So even though we were going to keep the window in an attempt to preserve the feel of the original house, we tore it out. And put it back in. So now it's a fake original window. We still like it.

I think that our north wall of the living/dining room is now comprised mostly of headers...oh well.