I just realized I’ve been confusing myself about counting the days of work on the house. I counted today as day 7, but the work started on June 4th, so really it’s day 9. I guess I’m counting days of actual work, and excluding weekends, or something. That’s what I’ll claim, anyway.
I can’t believe how fast the work is progressing lately. The first few days of demolition, it seemed like very little was being done each day. Now Every time I come home, it’s a different house.
Here you can see the ridiculousness of our previous kitchen ceiling. A remnant of our old ceiling, a good 8-10 inches below the original ceiling. I’m not sure what the thinking was behind that.
We’ve always been kind of unhappy with how low the kitchen ceiling was, assuming it was unavoidable. I mean, why would you want the ceiling so low if it didn’t have to be? But clearly it doesn’t have to be. So another pleasant side effect of the project will be aded cubic feet to the kitchen.
Here’s another picture showing the ceiling heights, along with some really cool old wallpaper.
Of course, the best part of today was seeing the support beams in place so they could get the temporary supports out of the way and finally appreciate the openness of the space. This is pretty awesome.
Also, the kitchen is cleaned up, and now it’s pretty easy to imagine the half-wall/passthrough/bar we’ll have going from the living room into the kitchen.
We selected cabinets today, and showed a kitchen designer our sketches for the layout of the kitchen. So now we sort of go back into wait mode until more of that stuff is done.
Not bad for 7 days of work.