Demolition: The Final Chapter

If you're wondering what's more satisfying than taking out aggressions by tearing down walls and smashing up tile, then I have your answer: finishing demolition. When you're done breaking down, then you can start building up and putting together. Check out the final state of the house before we started making it pretty. (Please excuse the blurry photos. Our camera was having issues.)

Remember when I told you that I didn't have any "before" pictures of the bathroom. This is as close as we're going to get. If you see the lighter spots on the floor, that's where walls used to be. You can see how narrow the bathroom used to be. We decided that we wanted a bigger bathroom, so we decided we could sacrifice a little closet space in the adjacent bedroom/office.

Demolition

We wasted no time when it came to starting demolition. As soon as we had the keys in our hands, we promptly went on a Home Depot shopping spree for tools and then headed to our new home to destroy it.

There was a pesky wall separating the kitchen area from the living room. You can see the old gas line hanging down. (We hired a plumber to move that. We don't like explosions.) You can also see some electrical wire up top that I would later electrocute myself on while trying to measure something. I'm talented. We also decided to flip the location of the kitchen and dining room. It gave us more room for cabinets and made a more open feel.

We like to use the carport as storage for unwanted house junk because it makes our neighbors happy. (We were waiting for the dumpster to arrive.)