They're here....

Although the contractors have been here for over 9 weeks, the calamity was pretty much restricted to the barn. Those days are done. This week the demolition began in our living space. This morning I enjoyed my coffee and worked on an article with the pounding of hammers and the screaming of a reciprocating saw in the background. This is likely to be a regular morning for us for the next few months. It really makes the washer and dryer and fridge sitting in our den seem normal.

Old meets...old. So, if you look through the doorway you can see the newly renovated barn. This doorway will be expanded and turned into an archway and will lead from the laundry/utility room into the Costco room. The door on the right will be replaced with a garden door that leads out to the back yard. Audrei has requested a cloths line be set up out there. This area of the house (former carriage house) is going to have a cathedral ceiling with a skylight in it to open it up a bit.

It's really like an archeological dig around here. When the guys tore down the walls in the carriage house they exposed the old original roof (with cedar shingles painted mint green). They believe there may actually be a third roof built over the one you see at the top of the photo. It's fun trying to piece together the lineage of the different parts of the house.

The washer and dryer and fridge had to moved from the old laundry room. The only spot we had was the den. The electricians and plumbers are arriving this morning to hook them up. This will be there home for the next month or two while the new laundry/utility room is being created. Rio looks less than impressed.

The new garage door is in. It's not hooked up yet (no power in the barn yet anyway) but it's all in place. The cedar shingles will change to grey pretty quickly on that South/East side of the house. At that point the grey door will match nicely.

This is looking down the hallway that used to connect the house to the carriage house. The wall on the right will soon be gone. When you look down the hall you can see the far wall which is actually a barn wall. It starts to give a sense of how large the laundry/utility room is going to be.

Full of surprises. Our century home appears to have steel studs in this wall. We think this area of the house used to be part of a wood room. Our current laundry room and carriage house access was likely built sometime after the former owners bought the place. I'm guessing this wall likely went in during the early 1990s but it could have been 10 years earlier or later.