we are doing the kitchen because 1) we have a door now in the dining room, 2) the walls in there are 2.5" thick because they are drywall over furring strips over plaster and lathe, and we want our extra, uh, i can't do math, but i'm guessing it's several square feet, back. also ... i no longer have words to describe how we're insane.
as of jan 25:
from dining room to kitchen day 0 day 21 may 04
some notes - in the last picture you can see how nice it looks with the floor. the floor that was painstakingly laid and will have to be just as painstakingly scraped up.
there is no countertop
day 0
day 10
day 32
notes about this - the cabinets next to the fridge were installed before they put up the soffet, so the *bleep* cabinets are unremovable until we rip out the soffet. or until we rip them out of the wall with sheer brute force, which i might point out would not be all that difficult, because hardly ONE CABINET was actually screwed all the way through the wall into a stud.
lonely stove
day 0
the bathroom is above the kitchen and we
are replacing the ceiling drywall as well. i sure do hope, really really
do hope, we vacuumed it out well when we had the floor out. i bet we
didn't, though. UPDATE: we didn't, but not like it mattered when we
were pulling the PLASTER CEILING out. holy mother of king of all
mega dust storms, batman.
jan 27
raise that, uh, ceiling. or bring it down. 13 bags of plaster debris and two truckloads to the dump later, the kitchen has no ceiling.
jan 28
living out of the bathroom sink kinda sucks. i hope that we have the rest of the lathe down and can clean up in there on the 29th, but who knows.
jan 29
we covered the cellulose with kraft paper.
to the dining room.
all plaster
is now down.
zac looks happy. personally, i
think he's bullshitting.
jan 31
ceiling drywall. no, it's not entirely screwed down in this pic.
