New House ...

We are moving to Milton-Freewater in August and we are going to buy Carl's Dad's house, since he just purchased a new house. He has been moving out into his new house which is allowing us to remodel a little before we move in. We were back in Milton a few weeks ago for 5 days and we got right to work. We are redoing the kitchen so our first project was to demo the kitchen and open up the wall into the living room. We are very excited to have this open great room with a wonderful view with a new kitchen! Carl worked long and hard to rip down drywall, pull up the existing tile (which was extremely hard to get out!), rewire and to cut hole to put in a venting system for our new down-draft range, and pull out the toilet in the bathroom upstairs. I helped with the drywall, pulled up the carpet (and the staples and tack strips) out of the living room and I started ripping down wallpaper in one of the bedrooms. We also had some help from Carl's friends Matt and Jeff. Thanks guys! And Carl's dad, Doug and brother, Rain, helped pull out some of the tile. Thanks!! Here are just a few sneak peak pictures of some of the work that we did. I realized I do not have any before pictures of the kitchen but I will add more pictures soon. We are planning to head back a few more times so that we will have a kitchen and hardwood floors before we move in, in August.

The living room (with beautiful windows)

Dining area (we are removing the mirrors soon too)

Demo on the wall between kitchen and living room

Picture of the kitchen ripped apart

another empty kitchen picture

A corner view of from the windows looking back into the kitchen.