Our 1970'S Identify Makeover Operate Two: Knocking Downward Walls

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Hey ya'll! I'm back! I've kinda been a hot mess lately, crammed inward a sleeping accommodation amongst 2 cats who think they're mini-buffaloes, living off Papa John's, as well as struggling to shape a coherent thought amidst the dust as well as noise. So, give thank y'all you for bearing amongst me during this weird-house-limbo-time. Despite the dust, I'm hence excited, as well as we're finally making progress. So, I've got some fun things to portion amongst y'all today.
Cats + pepperoni pizza + dust = life.

If y'all watched lastly week's video of Jesse smashing his agency through the wall, y'all likely knew what was coming.

We started past times knocking downwards the wall betwixt the kitchen as well as dining room, as well as and hence somehow ended upward knocking downwards some other wall, too.

So, let's start amongst the dining room wall first. You may scream upward that this wall has had several dissimilar looks.

It started out amongst ugly orangish cut back all over it when nosotros inaugural of all moved in.

I painted that cut back every bit fast every bit I could. This picayune dining room was the inaugural of all room I e'er painted inward this house, as well as it was hence exciting to encounter the orangish cut back disappear nether white paint.

This room marks the showtime of my descent into paint-everything-white-madness.

On the opposite side of that wall, inward the kitchen, I painted a chalkboard surroundings as well as some thrift shop stools. I also painted the outdated tile on the countertop, which was a huge improvement from the 1970's colors of yesteryear it previously sported.

Later on (seen here), I painted the cut back around the look-through white as well as spray painted those same stools silver.

It looked much hence better, but if I'm beingness totally honest,

I even hence didn't love it.

It was a cute picayune area, but totally non functional for our life.

Whenever nosotros receive got people over, I commonly halt upward sitting on my kitchen countertops amongst 10 people crammed into this picayune kitchen space, all likely annoyed amongst me that there's nowhere to sit.

Hostess amongst the mostest. Crowned 5 years as well as running.

That's a lie.

Awhile back, a skillful friend was over as well as nosotros were sitting at this uncomfortable picayune bar area and she looked at me as well as said,

'You know...you should knock downwards this wall.'

I looked at her similar she had absolutely lost her mind.

I mean, who practise y'all think I am? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Fraggle Rock Doozer?

But, Margaret totally planted a seed inward my caput that never went away, as well as for nearly a twelvemonth at nowadays I've wanted to karate chop this wall forthwith to the ground. When it came fourth dimension to rip upward the floors, I knew that if I was going to withdraw the wall, at nowadays was the time. Especially since nosotros were putting the hardwood flooring through the kitchen.

So, tardily i night, Jesse as well as I began to receive got downwards the wall. We started past times removing the cut back off of the door as well as the look-through.

The cut back was pretty slow to remove, but the countertop removal basically turned into an archaeological dig, as well as Jesse had to nail a bunch of tile to teach to the 800 screws mortal fastened this affair with.

The #1 interrogation I got later icon that tile countertop was nigh whether or non it was durable. Well, since the pigment is even hence intact later getting sledgehammered, yes, it has proven to live really durable indeed. If y'all receive got some former 1970's tile stinking upward the aesthetics of your solid somewhere, I even hence highly recommend that epoxy paint.

Totally works.

So, Jesse removed the countertop amongst some manful force. I generally stood in that location amongst a camera, entertaining Jesse amongst song, dance, as well as moral support.

Once the cut back as well as countertop were gone, nosotros left the remainder of the wall for our contractor to finish.

By the adjacent day, the wall was generally gone. There was a large beam (not structural) as well as some wiring to live dealt with, hence the wall stayed partially cutting out similar this for a picayune while.

Take a quick minute to honour the 1970's linoleum nosotros flora underneath the tile.

Not that I desire that on my kitchen floor, but it kinda reminded me of backsplash tile.

You've come upward total circle, picayune linoleum.

So, inward the below picture, I drew some arrows to exhibit y'all how much further nosotros took the wall out. In a perfect world, I would gut the ceiling inward the kitchen as well as vault it similar the remainder of the house, but that's a projection for mortal who isn't me. So, my adjacent best selection was to withdraw the electrical materials as well as the beams as well as brand the wall level amongst the ceiling as well as side of the house.

So, eventually lastly week, that finally happened.

And I've basically spent my calendar week running dorsum as well as forth, leaping as well as celebrating.

It completely changed the agency this infinite feels, as well as I volition finally live able to comfortably tally a tabular array inward the dining room.

I've non had a dining room tabular array for over 2 years, hence the solar daytime that finally happens, we're going to celebrate. You as well as me...so teach ready.

We even hence receive got to cut back it out, as well as pigment it, as well as all sorts of other stuff, but y'all teach the idea.

The step rails has also been partially removed, leaving a prissy hole inward the middle of my house. The novel i should live getting started soon, but no updates on that only yet.

Just for perspective, here's that same surface area when nosotros inaugural of all moved in.

And here's the electrical current condition, amongst a flake of flooring finally installed.

Sidenote: I'm pretty certain I'm going to whitewash the stone fireplace. I'm going to hold back until later the floors are done, hence that I tin encounter how everything looks together, but my gut tells me that that 1970's stone has GOT to go.

I know one-half of y'all are going to freak, as well as one-half of y'all are going to celebrate, but I'm pushing forward. I also receive got no thought if it volition fifty-fifty work, but let's gamble, shall we?

I also desire to supervene upon the lastly of the outdated forrest greenish low-cal fixtures inward the living room.

They each concord to a greater extent than or less 400 dead bugs at all times. You tin climb a ladder, build clean them out, as well as in that location volition live 400 novel põrnikas corpses past times Friday. Sometimes I'm pretty certain mortal is putting them inward in that location only to mess amongst me.

Here are a few to a greater extent than pics for perspective.

Here's a persuasion from the opposite way, from when nosotros inaugural of all moved in.

And as well as hence sometime lastly year.

And at nowadays today, amongst a hint of novel flooring. This is actual hardwood, rather than engineered flooring, hence it's only raw woods correct at nowadays as well as doesn't receive got whatever stain on it yet.

I am having quite the province of affairs over picking out a stain color. It's a large commitment, as well as frankly, I only desire to run away as well as never return.

I'm staining some samples this calendar week as well as volition portion my thoughts inward my next post. I've decided I don't desire to teach super black anymore (thanks to all of your wise suggestions as well as stories of lint as well as dust), as well as component subdivision of me kinda likes the natural wood.

Totally didn't encounter that coming.

So, obviously, I'm kinda all over the identify amongst my decision.

To live continued on that one.

Jesse totally doesn't empathize my mania over choosing a stain color, as well as his green input involves something like

'Yeah, sounds skillful to me. I similar all of the colors.'

The below picture, taken at Señor Taco (home of the best burritos ever), likely does an accurate task of depicting how I hold back at him every fourth dimension he tells me he likes ALL the colors.

Anyways, we'll cross that stain span when nosotros teach there.

For now, let's movement on to the adjacent wall that got knocked down.

See that picayune doorway? There used to live a really old, really dysfunctional steal door there, as well as it leads into the hallway. It's insanely narrow as well as drives us both crazy.

Here's some other persuasion of it later nosotros took the carpet up.

Still narrow as well as even hence annoying.

Once nosotros took the dining room wall down, the tiny hallway door seemed fifty-fifty to a greater extent than awkward.

So, nosotros decided to withdraw a large chunk of wall there, too, as well as opened upward up that picayune doorway.

And it's awesome.

It makes the whole infinite experience different.

It also completely opens upward the hallway as well as volition brand my laundry province of affairs a picayune less cramped.

This hallway leads to the invitee bedroom (at the halt of the hall), the office (to the left of the invitee bedroom), the laundry space, the striped guest bathroom (to my immediate left), and as well as hence behind me, the master copy bedroom.

Just to hand y'all some perspective, hither is a crazy movie of what this hallway looked similar when nosotros inaugural of all moved in. This below movie is taken from the same angle every bit the movie above.

I apologize if y'all receive got nightmares nigh this hallway of horrors.

I know I did.

So, every bit y'all tin tell, it's actually come upward a long agency since nosotros moved in. Thank goodness.
Here are a distich to a greater extent than views of this surface area today.

Again, nosotros even hence receive got to cut back everything out, as well as pigment everything, hence squint your eyes.

There's even hence so much to live done, but I'm hence excited at nowadays that I tin sort of say what it volition all hold back similar when it's all done.

It genuinely feels similar a dissimilar house.

And my encephalon is going crazy amongst ideas.

I'm basically starting over amongst most of the rooms because my gustatory modality has totally changed since I decorated our rooms the inaugural of all fourth dimension around. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few skillful things volition remain, but tons volition change. So it's going to live actually fun, as well as there's going to live hence much to weblog about.

We'll all hold back dorsum fondly upon this fourth dimension every bit 'The Great Blogging Drought of 2014'.

Before I go, since my lastly post, many of y'all receive got sent Tootie your love, wishing her a quick recovery from her truthful cat depression. She thank y'all you, as well as wishes to say y'all that she is kinda enjoying living inward the master copy bedroom, napping adjacent to me on the human bed spell I blog.

She occasionally even hence gets depressed over her inability to freely roam the house, but she's doing her best to maintain a positive attitude.

I'll live belongings her tiny mitt until it's all over, don't y'all worry.

Cheese has no comment.

That's all for today, ya'll.

I've even hence got some other calendar week or 2 of chaos ahead of me, hence give thank y'all you for beingness patient amongst me. I beloved ya for it.

'Til adjacent time.

P.S. The other posts inward the House Makeover serial tin live flora here:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10