The Walls Came Down . . .

Well they blew the horns And the walls came down They'd all been warned And the walls came down They just stood there laughing They're not laughing anymore The walls came down

I think you can guess what's been happening in my house. Yesterday they got the LVL up and they took the support walls down. They also worked on the colonnade, so I now only have half walls in the foyer. My whole first floor is one gutted, wide-open space.

I must have had 4 trucks and 6 men in my house by 7:30 AM yesterday morning. Dave had the electrician over, and they started yesterday. Today was less dramatic because they were working on electrical - you can see it, but it's not the big effect of losing a wall (or half of one).

Kitchen now totally open to dining room and living room.

I'm not sure what tomorrow will be - I know that Dave mentioned that they would be starting to put up the blue board.

I'm not sure what to put as the eating out count - I had plans for dinner anyway, and Chuck took the kids to McDonalds - does that count as two or one?

I read some stuff on the Kitchen Forum today - this poster was looking for confirmation on her timeline. It was to be finished in about 1 month, and everyone was commenting that it was WAY too aggressive, and that they didn't know of a kitchen remodel that could be done in less than 10 weeks. Sooo, that got me to thinking that I might need to update my count down - in my head, I was thinking 5-6 weeks, and that includes this major structural change. Well, based on what Dave's gotten accomplished so far, I don't see why we wouldn't make that timeline, but maybe something else would bog us down. Anyway, it wouldn't hurt to adjust my expectations.