Brian Is Getting A Little Excited

It is rare that Brian will take pictures for the blog, let alone demand that they be posted. His visions of a gourmet kitchen are getting the better of him. Today he ripped out the ceiling where the pantry will be. We have also decided to have the one window bricked up so we can try to build this pantry ourselves. It will be a long, slow, process, but at least there will be progress.

And So It Begins....Again

I suppose this marks the official beginning of the second phase of our renovation...the kitchen.

Our kitchen has been left in a torn up state since the first half of our reno was completed on the main floor a year and a half ago.

This is the remnants of what was our bedroom closet before we added the second story. Here's what it looked like at around 6:00 tonight.












Brian and I have really been getting the renovation itch again. I think now that he is out of school and at home more, Brian has had much more time to think about his dream kitchen...and to stare at what is now the opposite of his dream kitchen. I guess that would make it his nightmare kitchen.

There's a problem, though. We have no money :) But as Brian so aptly put it: "It doesn't cost money to demo." And since we have lived with a torn up kitchen for a year and a half, we figured we could live with a little bit more torn up kitchen for another year and a half.








After around 2 hours, the closet was gone. This space will eventually be our pantry. We'll have to have the window bricked up since the wall will go right in the middle of it so we can't quite build it yet. But maybe will do a little sheetrocking since we have some extra lying around in the garage.

And maybe we'll take a drive to Idaho for some lottery tickets.