And so it begins...

We have been talking about opening up a wall between our dining room and kitchen for quite a while now...we finally did it today. I was a little apprehensive at first, but I really love what we have now. We are far from being done and this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as renovations go, but little by little we will get to where we need to be...here are some before, during and after pictures...

Here is the wall in the dining room before demo:




Here are a couple of pictures of the kitchen wall that was removed...




Michael removed all the woodwork in the dining room so that we could use it later...we lost the corner cabinet, our hardwood floors were not under the cabinet so we have a big section of floor without cabinet or pretty hardwood and now we have to re-paint the dining room...I loved that room and there is no way that we would be able to duplicate the faux paint job that we had in there...




Demo...






This is what we have now...




There is no escaping our kitchen now!! With the wall gone you can see our 1950's kitchen with the white and gold cabinets...pretty huh...those are next.

Now we have to wait for the building inspector to come and then we can put up the sheet rock and close everything off.