Dust and Noise Abound!

For years, Charlie and I have been debating on remodeling or moving.  We went back and forth and looked a few houses and neighborhoods, but really I just did not want to move...but on the other hand, Charlie had bought our house just a few months before we met and had I been involved, we probably never would have bought this house.  I'm so fickle.

In the end, we felt remodeling was our best choice financially and physically, meaning I am not ready to move further away from my mother and brother. :)  It's nice having family so close and the only thing better would be to have my brother actually move onto our block.

Anyhow, we all know that when I commit to something, I go full force...the same applies to remodeling.  We are making our main floor an open floor plan which means we have to remove a load bearing wall.  That is the hard part.  I meant to add "before" pictures but forgot, so you just get the "during".  When the project is complete (and God help me, the sooner the better) I will post befores and afters.

This is the entry way looking into the kitchen.

living and dining.  The half torn out wall is the load bearing one

kitchen into dining

we moved the sliding glass door from the kitchen into the dining room

here's the window they had to remove to move the door

here is my laundry/kitchen area in the basement
utility sink for dishes
old changing table for dish rack

fridge and stove
Thank goodness they at least hooked up our stove!
The rest of our make-shift kitchen is in the family room, I'll have to get a picture of that.

Here you can see the door on the far wall and the wall from behind the stove is now gone.
They boarded the door b/c there is no deck there (yet...we will have to extend our current deck) and they have met Leo.

We are adding a fireplace to the living room

Walter just doesn't know what to make of all this but he's happy to get cooled by the fan!