Bringing down the deck was a pain in the neck!

Deck Demo Day!!  Our old neighbor Jack offered to help us with the deck demo...he wanted to use some of the boards to build his son, Pace, a treehouse.  We will have a new deck and screened-in porch on the new addition so we have to remove this deck before Galt Innovations can start pouring the footings next week!  It was another busy weekend!

One last look at the deck before it is gone...

Pace came ready to work:)

While Pace was hard at work, we started taking down the vinyl siding and removing the window.  Still trying to figure out something cool to do with these window weights.

Hard at work:)

Jack is loaded down with boards and headed home to build a treehouse!

Trey & I finished up the rest of the demo...

Mission accomplished!!!

Now how to move and what to do with these SOLID CONCRETE steps???

Kitchen Demo

This weekend we started demo work on the kitchen...we knew this was going to be a hard task.  We wanted to keep the upper cabinets and as much of the lower cabinets that we could.  The cabinets are solid wood and nailed to the wall with 3 inch nails.

We started with removing the flooring-first the ceramic tile.

The cement board under the ceramic tile was adhered to the original wood floors and we were not able to save them:(  Totally bummed about this!

Finally got the floors up and moved on to removing the cabinets...Trey had to use a kung fu move on one of the base cabinets...needless to say we didn't save that one:)

Something had apparently been living under that cabinet...now I'm really happy we stripped the kitchen down to the bare bones!

The floors are now completely removed!  That was a lot of work.  There were a few holes in the sub-floor that we had to repair...Trey found this out the hard way...LOL!

Here's the kitchen completely gutted...this is going to be so much fun putting it back together.

Before/After of Kitchen...

This was a very productive weekend...the kitchen is completely demo'd.  We have ordered all new appliances & LUCKILY found matching long leaf pine hardwood flooring at a salvage yard that match the den PERFECT!!  I can't wait to put this room back together, but that's going to be while.

Next up...bringing down the deck!!