Tuesday, December 30, 2008

After Christmas... before New Year...

This is a view into the dining room from the living room. The far wall has an alcove with a leaded glass window and was covered with 70's paneling when we bought the place. This space has provided much inspiration through the beginning of our work on the house. It was (and will be again!) a built-in buffet on the side of the dining room. In the attic found the original 7 'beveled mirror that hung horizontally above the buffet top...


The first thing I saw when I walked in this house that made me want it was the box beam ceilings. As you can see they are in the living room and dining room. This week we have been working on cleaning them up and prepping for paint. As in the bed rooms there was thick layer of 'decorative texture' that had to be scraped off the ceiling between the beams.

The opening on the far wall is where the french doors (the originals were in the basement!) will be hung again. Thanks to Liz Deck's under-the-floor trim detective work we discovered there was once an opening wide enough for two doors side by side. A few swipes with a Sawzall opened up to find the double header in place and an incredible flow from the box beam ceiling, to the doors, to the back room.


Our great friend Britt Kummer has helped us come up with a fantastic use of space in the kitchen! The back of the kitchen leads upstairs and is slated to be home to the fridge (right), pantry (left behind small wall), and more counter space (left foreground). Where the window is on the left used to be a half bath, then it became a laundry room... and now we are happy to have the natural light in the back of the kitchen.
This is a view of the kitchen looking toward the dining room. At this point the electrical is almost all the way roughed in and you can see we are ready to put some insulation up in those exterior walls (though it would have been nice if that happened before Arctic Blast 2008!). As always Alistair is assuming his role as 'The Supervisor'...

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