The BIG Remodel

I will let the pictures speak for themselves… However, please note that the *lights* are not on.  This is how our place looks like on a cloudy day with no lights.

living room

  view into kitchen

kitchen looking north

   view of kitchen from dining room

This is the long, long phase where things continue to change and improve…but very, very slowly.

 living room

view into kitchen

 dining room from kitchen

The beginings of the new living room, fireplace (box), entry to the kitchen and the new dining room.

new hallway

Front entry and hall closet (aka the smallest room in the house).

front of house without vinyl siding

 back of house 

And this is what the outside looks like with no VINYL SIDING! Yahoo! Oh yeah, that’s plywood over holes where the new window/doors will go!

Yahoo! Demo doesn’t take long at all. Most of what you see here isn’t acutally demo, but the begining of the framing on the new walls.

The old kitchen The walls for the new office and laundryoom!

Away with the black firplace, and the hole in the ceiling

the view into and past the old dining room

the front entry

original kitchen (site of new dining room)

original Tiki Bar (aka laundry room)   

  original south end of the *Cave* (site of new office/guest bedroom)

 original east end of the *Cave* (new hall closet/phone center and part kitchen)

 original powder room 

  world’s worst place to put a bathroom window 

The front entry, from inside and outside

Dinning room,  Livingroom windows Livingroom fireplace and entrance from front door

loooong hallway to bedrooms

In the begining, there was a house. But we really didn’t love it.  We loved the location, the street and the lot.  That is reason enough to buy, right?

The front of our house, with all it’s vinyl siding glory

 Kitchen, Thanksgiving 2006

A typical dinner party, March 2007

 The *office/family room* area, Nov 2006