The wall comes down!

This weekend was big for the house. Not only was it move-in part I, but we also took down the wall between the kitchen and dinning room. Last week we took out all the cabinets in the kitchen and so the kitchen was transformed from this:

 

to this:

 

Top Left is where the fridge used to be, top right is where the sink used to be and bottom is

where the stove used to be

Now where did all those cabinets go you ask? Well they are all being saved to be used in our new kitchen so they are currently completely filling up the three season porch along with the stove and dishwasher. Once all the cabinets were down we had to make sure that there was no electricity running through the wall we were going to take down. So while Nate and Tom worked on rewiring and disconnecting and such, Nate's mom and I worked on getting all the dust off the walls from when we sanded the floors. This proved to be a more irritating process than expected. Even after vacuuming and wiping the walls down, they still have dust on them. At this point I'm just hoping it eventually wears off. Anyway, after the dust was kinda off, I was able to touch up the paint at which point we were ready to move in! This part of the move in was minimal. Since we still have a little bit of trim to finish up we mainly moved into the bedroom so that the bed could be out of the way for the work we were doing on the other side of the house. This allowed also the possibility for us to start spending nights at the house.

First we brought in our new rug:

 

 

This is the first rug I've ever bought that has a pattern on it. Next came the bed frame.

 

Finally the new mattress!

 

 

This is what it looks like with the bed made and temporary curtains up.

 

We took a pause for Valentine's day

 

Pretty roses from Nate!

and were right back to work again this morning (Yay for three day weekends). Today was the day the wall came down! We've been waiting for this day for a long time since we were having a really hard time visualizing what sort of space we were going to be able to work with for the new kitchen.

  

 

Before the wall came down

 

 

Working hard to get all of the wall frame out of the ceiling

 
                                   View from dinning room                                View from doorway to living room

 

We were completely amazed on how big the space was once we got the wall down. The ceiling looks so tall and it really feels like we've gained a lot of square footage. Next step: Clean up!