For Such A Time As This: demolition

Monday, June 8, 2015

Demolition Part 2

The last part of our demolition was to get the floor up out of the kitchen. This was easier said than done. There were multiple layers, and they were laid very well.

A MESS!!!

This became an all hours adventure. When I would have to go home to put Adelaide to bed, I loved getting snapchats from Kevin about the progress.

We figured out through this process on what works and what does not work. As much HGTV that we watch, we truly felt like there should be video cameras behind the scenes capturing our crazy moments.

While the guys tackled the kitchen floor, I tackled this huge pile in our backyard with the help of the Amazing Adelaide.

This literally took almost two days to go through because it was so much and their were nails everywhere. It kept raining so I would have to stop, but thank goodness for rain boots I was able to get it done.

Little Me following Behind

Separating the good from the bad

Someone wanted to play on the second day while everyone worked.

Aunt Hannah let her play in the water which she loved.

After a long hard weekend, everyone got their jobs done!

It was wet so I couldn't get the little stuff up.

We were all worn out but felt successful.

Next up, new additions to the house!

Elizabeth

Friday, June 5, 2015

Demolition Time

I love good stories about homes, and the stories about this one intrigued me. The Barden boys built the house out of the wood from the old Woodland school house. I wanted to bring back the charm from the wood in the house, but most of it was being covered by carpet. So our first step was to remove the carpet.

We signed on the house during a busy time for Kevin and me. I was wrapping up my seventh year of teaching, and Kevin was busy in the field planting. For almost a week, we never went to the house together. The night that we signed on the papers Kevin went and made sure that we were correct about hardwood being under the carpet in each room. Then that weekend, Adelaide and I went and removed all the carpet. I am really not sure how I got all the carpet up myself and it all moved to the kitchen area, but I was able to get it done in a few hours. Now, the staples, carpet strips, and nails were a different story. They took lots of time!

It really opened up the rooms!

Adelaide was a big help!

Once Kevin had some time out of the field, we pulled the big truck up to the back door and threw all the carpet away. So long carpet!

The next step was to remove two walls. We decided to open up the living area including the dining room and kitchen. Under the sheet rock in every room is SHIPLAP! Joanna Gaines would be in heaven in this house. (Yes, I saved some and have some plans to make some things out of it in the near future.)

The wall between the kitchen and living room was a supporting wall so we knew we would have to put a beam in for that one. We decided this would be a bigger challenge than we were capable of on our own so we hired someone to do that for us. We were very surprised when we came in one day, and he had both walls down.