the Doors

Today we bought insulation and doors from Menards. It was fun. It's nice to be reminded that we will have a house one day and that eventually we will be done with deconstruction. Considering we've knocked everything down (all walls and ceilings) and we're just about done with cleaning it, we are entering the final leg of deconstruction. Soon it'll be time to choose things and decorate. But first we need to fix the structural concerns, get the furnace ducts, update electrical, and install plumbing. I hope that flies by because I want to design our house!! By the way, I'm pretty excited about our doors! This is the front door. It has blinds in the glass that you control. How come I never knew about this before?!

Burgled

This house is full of surprises! Mainly, that it was built/remodeled so poorly. We found out that there are a couple of boards missing from the floor upstairs (tucked away behind a wall) and that a weight bearing beam isn't actually connected to anything on the main floor. Also, the upstairs roof isn't really structurally sound and we'll have to throw a couple of beams up top in the master bedroom. Not that big of a deal, but we will have to alter our window selection (even though we already ordered them) and get an engineer out to ensure that we are making this house sound.

Yesterday was also quite discouraging because we found out that we had been robbed. They took Jason's saws, Eric's tool box, our bag of empty bottles, and coke from the fridge. Dead serious. Cokes. It's quite unfortunate, but it could have been worse. Some of our tools were scattered throughout the house so they didn't gank everything. They also left the ladders. We are a little smarter now about our tools and take them home. We don't even know how they got in, which is a little frightening.

Here, for the most part, is what our house is going to look like! The only problem with this design is that we had wanted a slider in the kitchen to lead to the deck we are going to eventually build. We realize we may not have room for a slider, but a french door will do. The light will really open up the room. The new main floor design will be posted as soon as it is available.

Dumpster #3

Third dumpster. I was hoping this would be the last, but I'm not so sure after today. We have torn one ceiling down (in the downstairs bedroom) and raised an 8 foot ceiling back to the original 9 foot. We are trying to salvage on ceiling in the whole house, but other than that, they are all coming down.

Speaking of coming down, one of our chimneys tumbled down yesterday. I was hoping to leave it up in the giant room upstairs, but I guess Logan had a different plan.

I would try to explain our ideas on this blog, but when we get a drawing of our house (on Monday hopefully!) and place it on here it will be easier to understand.

So, keep checking photos and hopefully in a few days the architect's plans will be posted!