kitchen update....there's a hole in the bucket dear liza, dear liza

Well the HOLE is in my living room,

and my kitchen.  Here is why we missed dinner

group on Saturday night~

 Living room side of wall before removal 

 the only remaining chunk of my kitchen ...but hey! I 

still can do dishes and have a dishwasher that runs.

 This is what my living room looks like now.  UGH!

 Even UGLIER and older linoleum floors under the ugly and old

floors that were there.  LOVE the stripes!!

 Kitchen view of wall before removal (looking into Living Room)

 Tearing up linoleum and subfloors

 It's a fun job--thank goodness I have Kyle to do it!

 Looking towards the stairs--Living Room wall to be

removed is on the right side of picture.

 Just more messes.

 Preparing to say "good-bye"

 Pictures down, food table moving

 Say "good bye" wall.

 Ah, my manly man--he rips into walls!

 One picture from the living room side.

 Don't even ASK how much dust and dirt this made! :(

 Everyone helping.... actually I'm taking pictures
and Puddy is eating.  That's all she ever does...Eat.

 Wall down, 2x4 braces up so the house doesn't cave it.

(It WAS a load bearing wall he took down after all.)

 Looking from kitchen through to Living Room, new hole.

 Getting ready to put the beam in to hold up our house.

And it's DONE!  

Now for mudding, taping, priming, painting, texturing, trimming, flooring...

Well, lots more to do.

With the help of Kyle, myself and his parents we had the

house cleaned up in something like 2 1/2 hours--the next

day the dust had settled again and it looked like we

hadn't done ANYTHING.  This week Kyle laid

new subfloor, finished lots of loose ends and will lay

NEW HARDWOOD FLOORS THIS WEEKEND!!!

Can I get a HALLELUJAH????  (the subfloor

is giving us splinters when we walk on it!)

A little closer...to being done.

And we're loving the hole!