Home Destruction

It has been a very busy last couple of weeks at our home. Here are the much anticipated pictures of our house in it's current state (actually it is even more destroyed now than the pictures show).

This is our upstairs living room during the move (most of the furniture was already packed at this time).

Here is the after picture, now the living room has a nice view into our former bedroom.

Another view from our living room.










All this area of the former living room, bedrooms, and bathroom will be a big open area that contains a large family room, hall, kitchen (and dining room with the new addition).










This is the former view when you enter our house with the hall closet greeting you. The living room is just off to the left of the picture.









Now you can see straight into the pink and black bathroom (don't worry, that bathroom doesn't exist anymore)










Our former kitchen actually wasn't too bad, but it was really too small once you put a table in the room.







We took all the cabinets out and put them in storage (to use later in our new garage). The former kitchen will become a laundry room (with the washer and dryer where the stove is currently sitting), and some walls will be put up creating a mudroom and half bathroom just off the entry way.







This was our former main bathroom with the original 1950's black and pink decor. The owners before us tried to update the bathroom by putting in linoleum (now rotting), brown and white cabinets, and a light blue counter top. Yeah, it really was as ugly as it sounds (oh and don't forget the lacy grandma curtains above the frosted window and the black flowery wall paper border around ceiling).







Since this picture, the bathroom has expired; now it is just a big open space (with a covered sewer pipe sticking up from the former toilet).









Our downstairs was pretty basic with a very long family room with our computer and toys at one end, and the TV area at the other end (again most of the furniture, pictures, toys and such were already packed)





Again we salvaged all the cabinets to use at a later time.







The rest of the basement consisted of a small bedroom, black storage room (yes the room was actually painted black by the former owners for their teenage son's bedroom), small mechanical room (with furnace/ A/C), and a bathroom.















Our basement is now pretty much one big open area. Once it is all done, the basement will consist of 4 bedrooms, a large bathroom, 2 storage rooms, a mechanical room, and a large family room.

Former family room



















Former black room, and bathroom.










The boys had a blast playing in the new addition once the old foundation was cut away (yep, our house is wide open for anyone to come see)







They have taken the old bricks off the backside of our house, and starting demolishing all the existing walls/frame between the old house and the new addition.
















We're really excited for the next step. Now that the demolition is pretty much done, it is time for the construction to begin. Later this week we will have the flooring for our basement/addition poured, and early next week the framing for the new addition will begin.