HOLY HOLE IN THE WALL! Demolition started earlier this morning. I wasn’t even out the door when “Contractor” showed up to start tearing out the wall. Right now, the front door faces out the side of the house and leads right into the living room. So, we are going to close it up and have the front door lead into what was the office room. This will give us a front facing entrance into our home, and will give us a nice little area to welcome guest. But, separating the office room and dining room was a stupid thin wall, which I think was added by Dr. Cheaper-by-Dozen so he could turn that tiny space into a bedroom for 3. Man, he had the kids stacked up like cans of spam in there. So the wall is down, and it really opens up the house. This settles the front door debate. T had wanted a decorative glass/wood door, but now that you can see the street from the toilet, that idea has been flushed down the drain. The missing wall has left a blank space in the carpet. When the carpet was first laid a little over a year ago, I kept the extra yards. The hoarder in me kept saying, “KEEP IT…..Keep it!!! You might need it!!!” My wise husband talked me into selling it at the yard sale this past summer. But, love means not saying, “I told you so.” Through this whole ordeal, the carpet is beat to hell and will need to be replaced anyways.
Contractor also took out part of the kitchen wall and pantry. We are trying to make a counter top/bar type area open the kitchen up. But we’ve hit a brick wall. Literally, there is some old chimney from a wood burning stove hidden behind the wall. We couldn’t have gotten lucky enough to uncover a fireplace. No, just cinderblocks that goes all the way up into the attic. So, now we face the decision: abort bar area idea, or pay Contractor $60/hr to tear out a chimney from the top down. I should explain that I have never been in my attic. The access is up a make shift ladder leading up from a tiny linen closet. I’m afraid it might be a back entrance to Narnia. T and Contractor are going to have to take out the attic vent and chunk the bricks out off the attic vent hole and onto the ground. Next, they will have to pick them off the ground and throw them into the giant construction dumpster that is parked in the front yard. (Why not aim for the dumpster and skip the middle step….gee men! T, reading over my shoulder, says the dumper is 100 ft away from the attic vent. I’m not going to win this one.) ANYWAYS, when they get to ceiling level, they will tear out the rest of the wall and carry it the front door using a wheel barrow. Thank God, I will be at work tomorrow.
Mom and sis came over to see the progress and new sink. Sis was impressed and said it was big enough to wash her kids in it. T replied, “Probably could, but here it will used to wash Wendy’s cups.”
Amigo came by and finished painting and T hung the cabinets in the laundry room. Electrician is coming to do electrical stuff tomorrow. Trim guy is coming back to put up another row of trim. Then Amigo has to come back one more time. So, we should be able to move back into the bedroom by the end of the week. I liked it better when construction happened while I was shacked up in a nice hotel somewhere.
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