KItchen Fresh Start

The final days of demolition have come. We are still doing little things here and there. The goal was to open up the space, create better flow throughout the downstairs and to take advantage of unused space by making it more functional. Honestly, once we were done ripping everything apart it felt way cleaner and nicer inside... If that's possible. It was really fun and took a lot of work. We didn't hire any help for the actual tear down, but had some help cleaning out all the debris.The kitchen before we started any work..

This is the same corner. Sink is in the garage waiting to be refinished and reused. We tore out all the cabinets as well as the plaster walls and window. You can also see the beginnings of our efforts to uncover the hard wood floors. The hardest part about the floors is the felt sub layer that we are scrapping by hand because it is so thick it can't be sanded off. 

This is the right corner of the kitchen. The pantry is located through the yellow door way to the right. You can also see the drop ceiling in the picture.

Drop ceiling gone. Terrible wall paper gone. Plastered walls gone. Pantry gone!

It's difficult to see in this picture but the flooring in the corner beyond the framing is completely slanted. It slants one inch down to the outside corner and tilts to both outside walls. There are multiple pitches going on it was crazy. If anyone can tell me the purpose of such a floor please let me know because we couldn't figure it out.