Demo is well underway.  Life is slightly more difficult when your kitchen is non existent but we're making the best of it.  We have a nice little makeshift kitchen set up in the living room.  We've already gotten pretty used to the new way of cooking.  

The most difficult aspect so far has been our stairs to our bedroom/bathroom have been removed.  With the stairway being removed it would be possible to leap from the second story all the way to the basement.  The temporary solution is this ladder. 

One fun part about demo-ing old houses are all of the treasures you find.  These bottles of old whiskey and cigarettes were found in the ceiling rafters.  

Notice the brick in the background - we removed the plaster coating on the back of the fireplace and found this rustic brick which we will leave exposed in the new kitchen.

While David's been causing a tornado, I've become obsessed with figuring out the history of our house.  Tax records and the city assessor's office say our house was built in 1945.  We've always felt the house is much older.  We found a very small newspaper clipping nailed to one of the joists that was from 1912.  I went today to the register of deeds to see if they had any records, the woman I spoke to was going to do some research but said it's likely older than the city tax record.  We also found this board in the ceiling that says CAUTION and the numbers 19539.  Not sure if they mean anything but the numbers are a zip code in Pennsylvania.