Kitchen Demo Day One!

It's been about 2 1/2 years since we've posted anything. Lots has happened. We are now starting on the kitchen and that's the primary project I'll be posting about. I'll also try to toss in some photos of the other rooms/projects we've knocked out since 2013 when there's nothing to post for the kitchen.

Here's some before pictures, taken this morning. Apologies that it might be hard to grasp the floor plan if you've not actually been here. It's a galley style kitchen, very large pantry (that we use as our kitty food/litter room), an awkwardly small dining room that feels more like a hallway and a breakfast table area (where we spent most of our time).

Kitchen with our fun colors. Goodbye colors and shelves.

Dining Room area and small staircase

Dining room looking at David sitting at his breakfast table. He was a little sad this morning. Notice the orange wall on the left side - that's the pantry wall/old exterior wall that will be removed later in the day.

Another picture of our breakfast nook area

And a few of the pantry

Hallway into the pantry and the basement stairs

And now for the DEMO...
Previous kitchen area

Dining room looking to where the pantry was

Pantry wall/very old exterior wall - we'll be installing a nice strong beam in the middle of this room. The framing that is still in this photo was from the original exterior door - whoever made the addition did not add a beam but rather just cut the 2x4's up at the ceiling and tossed up some dry wall. Glad we're redoing everything so we can add some much needed support to the walls, ceiling and roof.