Our Renovation ~ Demolition

Demolition has begun!!!

Well truly, demo began back in the beginning of March.

We have been so busy, that it is difficult to keep up on my renovation posts.

Let me begin to catch you up to speed.

If you missed Our Renovation befores take a look
here and here.

Come on in & we'll show you what we've been up to!

All in a day's work.

No...literally Travis & a buddy did all of this demo on a Saturday.

Seriously...

I was absolutely blown away amazed!

I had no idea demo would go so quick.

The Living Room.

Bet you've never cleaned a mess quite like this before.

That disgusting pile is about 1-2 foot deep.

The Living Room Ceiling

From the Living Room looking into the Dining Room area.

He has spotted a treasure in the  upstairs to show me.

Let there be light.

There is 120 year old door upstairs that serves the purpose of a window.

Do you suppose the house originally had a balcony?

I would love to find out.

This is really some of our first glimpse of what is upstairs.

The upstairs had been completely closed off.

Because it is an old home the upstairs appears have been originally

almost loft like.  The ceilings are not full height.

There are two seperate rooms. Maybe at one time they were bedrooms.

There are no remaining stairs to access the second floor in the house,

 though we can see where they once were.

Because of the ceiling height we are not planning to remodel this part of the house for now.

Although, that totally bums me out.....

I think it would make the perfect reading nook or look out tower with great river views.

But, it just was not in the original budget & that is something we have to stick too!

Travis also said that without completely rebuilding & raising the roof line,

we would have to drop the ceiling height on the main level in order for those

rooms to be full height.....NO WAY!  I LOVE the tall ceilings on the main level!

Another down fall was that we would have to reconfigure the entire floor plan to

accomodate stairs leading to the second floor. 

 Stairways eat up a lot of square footage quickly in a smaller home.

So, again we wayed the pros & cons & he won....for now....

The kitchen & dining room

This is the existing addtion / bedrooms.

Which we plan to remove & rebuild.

Bedroom

Bedroom looking into the other bedroom & addition.

I think at this point some folks think we may be a bit on the crazy side.

Not us!  Dreams are coming true here for us!

It has been truly amazing to be back in our home town.

I can not begin to tell you how many visitors & guests

we have already had on the first weekend at the new house. 

All of our friends & family have stopped by to see the progress & lend a hand.

I really don't think we had a free moment to spare for at about the first two weeks.

I can't remember a time when we had guests & my house was this dirty...

Thank you so much to all of you!!!

It means the world to us both.

Keep checking our progress!

Lots more to come.

Carrie

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