For reference, here is the dining room viewed from the living room. You can see the kitchen through the door on the right. Both walls behind Brett are going to be gone...
Here's the "before" kitchen looking into the nook. The wall behind the fridge and stove on the right will be gone.
Starting the kitchen demolishing we tarped the floor and taped off the living room.
With Matthew's help we took out all the cabinets in the kitchen, it seems so big now!
Crowbars helped take out the lath & plaster quickly, here's Jackie in action on the wall between the living room & dining room. Plaster was exploding everywhere like shrapnel...
Finishing up some plaster up high on the wall bordering the hallway and the dining room.
Piles and piles of plaster in the (ex) closet & hallway
Dusty work. That's the lack of a sink behind Debbie.
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Here's the kitchen after almost everything was done except for the final layer of floor covering (and thousands of staples..).
Here's looking into the kitchen and breakfast nook from the dining room, that wall will be completely gone soon.
And you wondered where the kitchen went? Outside of course! The inside of the garage is full of cabinets too. We're taking as much of this as possible to the rebuild center for recycling.
And the new kitchen! Just kidding, we've set-up a makeshift kitchen in the basement until the construction is done. Not pretty, but it works - we have a working sink, stove, toaster oven, and microwave down there.
