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#8 Beams!

August 23, 2017

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Late July / Early August, 2017

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#3 Setting up temporary kitchen

Ed and I spent about 8 hours each this past weekend preparing for the upcoming kitchen demo. Even though we've been working on demo for about 2 months now, this upcoming weekend is the biggest and (hopefully!) final part. The dumpster arrives on Wednesday. At this point, the butler's pantry and central hallway closet/pantry have been demolished (i.e. down to the studs). Upcoming is the kitchen, including all cabinetry. We will be without water, stove, and storage so we've been preparing our side-porch to be the "cooking" kitchen and the patio to be our "cleaning" kitchen. Ed set up a temporary sink out there for washing dishes. We plan to use an electric tea kettle to warm water for washing. Here are a few photos of the "new" spaces. The "game table" has been moved into the living room, and can seat 4. Note the Zima on the table, a surprise that Ed brought home from the grocery. They are surprisingly good! Pantry, sto...

#7 Ed's week of structural work

July 10-17, 2017 The kids and I headed to Louisiana for the week and left Ed at home with the kitchen project. I think he's relieved to have us out from under his feet. He sends updates and photos of his progress. Since he's had so much to do at work, he spells himself by alternating office time and demo time. He tells me that this is the first time he's caught up on his backlog of work (not home projects, engineering work) since January. It's got to be stressful to have such a heavy workload plus be the primary on a home project of such magnitude. But he does it! He's an "eat the elephant" kind of guy - he just keep chipping away at these large projects. He works hard, but doesn't ever burn out. It's amazing. His primary achievements this past week were to finish creating temporary support walls so that he could demo the remaining area by the basement stairs. He also took off the bathroom door and took down the sheet-rocked wall between ...

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