two days and two walls...

Friday night, this is what the kitchen looks like... PHOTO WAS TAKEN PRIOR TO FRIDAY NIGHT..

I know! You are thinking...why redo? Actually a friend of hubby's asked that very thing...we just kind of stared at him...  cause nothing in the kitchen works..NOTHING...
the oven doesn't work
the dishwasher doesn't work
the microwave was so dirty, we were afraid to turn it on (not the stainless one. that's ours and very clean...thankyouverymuch..)
the trash compactor doesn't work..(but really who cares)
if there was a garbage disposal I would bet it wouldn't work





We Rich started bright and early on Saturday morning...

I woke up to this. "This" is the common wall between the kitchen and the living room. I emphasize wall because really...a wall has some 2x4's and maybe some screws and such... Not THIS wall.. This is the back of the kitchen cabinets. People...there is drywall there on the back of the cabinets. ONLY drywall. No wall. Apparently in the rural areas you don't have to hang cabinets on actual walls... you just hang the cabinets (on air?) and then slap some drywall on the back.. paint and you are done...

So first we have to have a wall. You know...with studs and such...

going....

going....

almost gone....

gone!!

now how about some studs....

oh my...check out that light fixture..another thing to go..

oh look...a real wall....

(isn't that golden yellow on the walls pretty? yea, in real life? It's peach..ugly...)

oh look...there is my step stool and my constant companion..drywall compound.....

Did you notice that only the middle part of the wall is mudded and taped? The cabinets are 42" and will reach the ceiling so only the middle 18" will show. I am all for doing what's gonna show..

yippee!! We now have a brand new wall between the kitchen and the living room.
Ain't it purdy?

And so day one ends....


And onto day two....

Today Rich got the rest of the sub floor in the master closet..and took the flue out of the living room.  You can just see it in the corner of this photo..  There is a wood stove in the basement..then the flue goes up through the living room floor and up into the ceiling..  nice... and really never finished.  It should have black pipe all the way up.  Nope...just the silver lining.  So that is gone now...  oh and so is the satellite tv....dang seller finally called and had it turned off.  After a reminder from me.  After I was pushed into reminding her by hubby.

and then Rich started in on the wall in the kitchen... This is the only photo I have of the wall before.  It is over there on the bottom left.  This photo was taken before the seller moved out.

See?  It's a finished half wall and the steps lead to the basement.  A cement basement...where the door is an inside door with a hook and eye..like the old screen doors had.  Not a look I want to keep. 

So....  Here it is with all the trim removed...bunches of trim work.  The whole house is FULL of trim work...overkill with the trim work already...

That's not Rich posing.  He is holding up the wall cause I made him put it back up so I could get a photo...

down it goes...

a bit scary ...

3 different wallpaper samples.. all of them UGLY!

Oh..let's have a FULL WALL...like an all the way to the ceiling wall...

DONE...well except for drywall which it will get next weekend.

And it is now Sunday night at 7pm and that means we have been here an hour past our usual time.  We cleaned up, loaded the truck and drove home...

After a fiasco at IMO's pizza where they charged us $53.84 for two individual pizza's (lucky for us, I noticed that they gave us the wrong pizza's and then we checked the ticket!)  we got home to find out we missed all the trick-r-treaters and now I have a bowl of M&M's and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups...neither of which I can eat..

Monday - lucky us...we got an electric bill, a water bill and the real estate tax bill in the mail today...

Nancy