Minor House Remodel....

We have finally begun the house remodel that we have been talking about since we moved in back in '05. We live in a 70's brick ranch style house, with a very compartmetalized layout. We have a cozy little den at the back of the house with a fire place and my sewing studio, and a wonderful (still kind of small) living room at the front of the house. We've aganoized over the fact that we never use our fireplace simply because it is not in the room we use most often, and the fact that i am in the room a lot sewing, but again, this is not the room Josh and Elliott would most likely be found in. So many a Saturday afternoons, find me in this room sewing, josh working on his lap top in the other, and Elliott running to and fro.



So we decided to take the wall out.....

this is a picture of the wall from the front room side:

this is a picture of the same wall from the back room side:

here it is coming down....YAY!!!goodbye yellow walls!

Thank goodness Josh's dad is a carpenter, because he said that was a load bearing wall, so he had to reinforce it with double 2x12's: (josh is doing a good job supervising:)

it's down....one big room!!! (wow....i didn't realize how hideous that yellow really is)

we had to hire a little extra help:

wood floors down:

i will post more once everything is completed. We are currently painting the shoe mould and trim and we are going to paint a neutral color over the yellow, which will also carry into the kitchen!