This weekend we finished with most of the destruction... another wall came down, a couple of funky looking arches and a little built in bookshelf in the corner was semi-demoed. The layout for the kitchen is figured out, and we have a clear plan of what's going where and where we are buying all this stuff... and HOW.... ha! We laid out in blue tape where our appliances and cabinets will be, and we got the back wall down to the studs (only on the inside) to be cut out for a new door to the backyard. We also started to plan the layout for the master bathroom we want to build in the unfinished attic space, but that won't be taking place for a long time... maybe next summer.

Our GC is finally back, so now we are feeling less uncertain about the sequence of steps to come.

But the really cool thing about this last weekend's work was all the help we had! We filled up an entire dumpster with all the stuff we cleared out of the garage, garden shed and the attic. There were remains of old kitchen cabinets and tons of cement chunks that we scrapped from the basement and kitchen walls, wall paper, tile, wood, old carpet, screens, AC ducts, etc etc, etc. And our GC cleaned out a lot of our electrical system...It's all moving along! Thank you guys!

ENJOY!