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Don and Sarah take a break in the "ballroom".
Note the oh so lovely full wall bookshelves and the semi-circle on the
floor from where the raised floor used to be and the white area is all
where the concrete was on the hardwood floor.
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Here is Scott Miller bouncing the washing machine down the stairs.
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Unearthing the Orange TUB.
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Orange Tub vs. Sawzall
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Here is Nikki about to heave the orange tub out the window into the
dumpster.
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Here you can get an idea of the original layout. You would have
to walk up the stairs on the right and then turn left to get into the
bathroom. The gaping whole that allows you to see the tub from
this angle used to be a wall with built-in cherry cabinets and cupboards.
We are going to re-use them in the space that we added in the kitchen.
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Here Sarah is standing where the orange tub used to be and Erin is doing
some sort of bathroom-demolition-dance. See the mess of wires
to the left of the frame it was about five times worse on the other
side of the cavity under the bathroom floor when we looked in there.
Obviously the owner that remodeled the house previously did all his
own electrical work.
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Here is my dad shortly after I convinced him that we should tear out
the rear stairwell.
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Here is Jon Nowak standing at the precipice of what used to be the rear
stair well. Note the large window that would have been in the
cramped and dirty stairwell. There is another one to the left
of it and both are now in the kitchen area.
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Here is Monica framing up the new space that we gained in the kitchen
by removing the stairwell. Notice all the light coming in those
windows.
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Here is a view into the kitchen. Pretty cozy but long-term it
will be a bathroom or something. Sarah is cleaning up after we
sandblasted the radiators. Yes, we sandblasted the radiators without
taking them outside. Talk about a mess!!
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Here I am with a view into the kitchen before we tore most of the floor
that you can see and the stairs and the bathroom out. Also that
is the window that we used to heave 2 dumpsters full of stuff out of.
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Here is Tara, also one of the super helpers of this project.
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Not the best picture of Scott, but he is with his best friend; Sheet
Rock.
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Here Sarah and I are working on some plumbing fixtures.
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Did I mention that we tore out ALL of the plumbing in the house and
are re-doing it all ourselves?!
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More plumbing and Scott in the background.
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Scott doing some acrobatic sanding.
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Oh for brotherly love.
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