Kitchen Demolition Continued......

I am not sure it is ever going to end. It just keeps going and going....not the Energizer bunny but the kitchen demolition. It seems everytime we go into the kitchen we decide we should tear out something else. Case in point. After hours and hours of wallpaper removal it came to the wall that encased the brick chimney. I said "I wonder what the brick looks like? Maybe it would look good exposed!" Clarke said "let's see!" So off comes the wall.

We liked what we saw so we are keeping the bricks exposed. This also solves another problem for us because we would have had to redo the wall anyway because of how close it is to the woodstove. For insurance purposes the wall behind the stove had to be made out of non-combustible materials.


There was this little doorway that went from the kitchen into the dining room that had a swinging door. The corner of the wall came out pretty close (too close) to the woodstove so we decided that had to go too! Willard and Sarah again weren't here to explain their reasoning behind the doorway and it just didn't make any sense to us so it's, off with its door frame!

If you look at the ceiling you can see how big this little doorway was. Although the doorway was small, its removal makes the kitchen look so much bigger. This also gives us opportunity to fix the rot in that corner. This is where the old part of the house (1878) attaches to a newer part (1943). When you look at where they join you can see that the old part of the house has birch bark under the clapboards. We are guessing that it was 19th century tyvek.

So the kitchen has one wall torn down to the studs. The rot repaired and reinsulated. The cupboards removed, the floors removed. The doorway removed and rot fixed. The chimney exposed. Now we have to put it all back together but before we can we have to decided about the electrical and where it is going upstairs. Which poses a whole new area of demolition.

sigh!

Nancy