More Demo...

Here's a lot more pictures! And I can now say that it's almost all done, like it really is all done but a little rubble from the rock fireplace downstairs.  Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who helped!  I was in tears with all who came to help this past Saturday.  Thank you!

Benson loving the demo work

 Lucy also wanted in on it

 No more mural or tree :(

 Other wall through to the 2nd bedroom

 Just the fireplace and built-in left.  Oh and the popcorn ceiling

 Wall between living room and dinning room cut in half.  Also the stairs are being moved to the right side of this picture.

 Exposure to the stairs.  (Soon stairs no longer)

 Mantel coming down.  But keeping the rock.

 Cut off wall between the rooms and most of the kitchen torn out.

 Tearing it out!

 Saturday's help!

 Carrie heading down the stairs

 Upstairs and master bath (with the very cute sweeper)

 The men taking turns hitting the rocks off the walls

 Hall downstairs

 Almost all done!!!

 Front of the house.  Receiving a new roof this weekend.  For sure new columns and door.  The green turf also goes. 

 Backyard (I love it).

 Back of the house

 This porch will be in closed in for a pantry and mudroom 

New House!!

So we closed on a house here in Utah about two weeks ago.  We're gutting the house.  In my hind sight, we shouldn't have.  But we are so there you have it.  I hope to document the process here.  Here's a bunch of pictures of the house before the gutting began and then some when we first started.  (Remember the house was built in 1961 and everything is original.)

Walking to the front door into the living room.  We are keeping the mantel, I really love the rock (and apparently the original owners did too).

 Current front door

 Dining room/glance into the galley kitchen

 Upstairs hall bath (we are keeping the yellow tub!  I'm super excited to decorate around it!!!).

 Second bedroom upstairs, it's huge.

 Master bed and bath

 Galley Kitchen

 Stairs behind kitchen (they are being moved into the center of the house in the dining room).

Family room, complete with rock wall, water feature, and "clouds" coming down off the ceiling.

 18 ft mural.  With a "Y" and "V"

 Dry bar and you can see the tree.  Also the shag carpet and tiles ready for a pool table. (We are closing off the dry bar area as a second bedroom downstairs.)

 Another shot of the awesome family room.

 Downstairs hall/door outside

 First downstairs bedroom

 Downstairs bath

 Laundry/storage

 Start of the demo, so fun!! And messy!

 Looking into the bed and bath downstairs

So I need to add a picture of the outside and backyard.  Also now we've demoed the whole downstairs and half the upstairs :)