UPDATE!

We have been knocking down more walls, chipping up more thin-set and making more runs to the dump. Here are some new picks to show you some of the work...

Jamaica Room has lost a closet and a wall and joined the utility room...

There is a step down into the utility room which will have to be removed by raising the floors.

We completely gutted the kitchen...

We removed the wing wall on the right and the soffet at the top. The AC unit at the left center will be moved at some point and the walls surrounding it will come down as well.

 The stripper mirrors came down and the wall knocked down so that the hallway could go straight back.

We punched through the pink bedroom from the living room so that we could have a linen closet.

AND we gutted the master bath and closet so they could become the new and improved master bath!
 Eric and Ryan have been working on plumbing the master bathroom so those photos are on their way.

P.S.- We did finally find mama mouse who gave the boys a run for their money before they caught her and tossed her out the window.

Close Only Counts In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

havent found a hand grenade yet...YET!!!

(im not ruling anything out after some of the non blog appropriate things we have found)

but
while ripping out kitchen cabinets we came across this awesome horseshoe set.

we promptly took a ten minute break and set them up in the back yard to play a quick game.

 

this was a nice set too...every set i've ever seen comes in some kind of crappy cardboard box. but not this one, it had its own canvas carrying case and everything

For Some Perspective

Ok... so we wanted to give everyone some perspective as to what it is we're doing exactly.
here are some images of the before and hopefuly afterwards floor plans.

as you can see were not changing anything too drastically. the bulk of the changes are to the kitchen and the master bedroom. For the master we plan on making it into a true master suite with a new bathroom and a  pretty sizable closet; which someone (to remain nameless, but i think you can guess) has already laid claim to almost all of it.

Oh and if your wondering why i would add a ridiculous 2 foot addition to the front of the house in the dining room and office; well im not.  it just took me about 3 weeks to realize there was even a step out in the floor plan... so when i made the first plans i didn't even know it was there.  we had to start ripping out walls and landscaping before it was even visable.

Remember to SMILE

Honey look what I found in the wall...

Found two of these little guys in the wall behind the shower. Never found mama but returned the babies to the food chain (i.e. left 'em out in the backyard for the wildlife)