What a day!!

Hans and I have been making plans all winter on the renovations for the cottage. Yesterday we put in motion the first of it. Of course, before you can construct, you have to destruct. It took us only 6 hour or so.

This is what we started with. A huge wall dividing the kitchen from the living room with the fireplace in it. Because we built the cottage with scissor cathedral trusses we did not need a supporting wall at all, but at the time we built, we were strapped for cash and the fireplace we were given was a certain size, we had to make it fit. Thus we had a fireplace separating the kitchen area from the living room.

Believe it or not, this is the only picture I could find of the fireplace before, well, before we got at it. We did take a before picture, but my hand is quicker than my mind obviously, because I deleted it before I had a chance to rethink it. Then Hans and I started having some real fun:

You get the drift. We had thought that we would get down to the platform before we had to call it a day, but destruction takes half the time you think it will, while construction takes twice as long.

When we realized it was only 1:15, we decided to take it all down instead of just to the base. Soon we were on the kitchen side. First the cabinets came out, and then the rest. That big silver thing sitting in the way on the floor is the fireplace. It weighs a lot. Hopefully someone will come and take it away.

We were on a roll. Destruction is so much more fun that construction.





We were happy with the amount we got done, that's for sure. Next weekend we will take up the floor, and take out the closet walls in Hans' manroom. LOL. We have rented a truck for the week we are on holidays, May 14th so we can make many trips to the dump, but we can also bring up the materials for the construction. Watch this space for further development.

By the way. That's Ninja that Hans is holding in the above picture. This was her first trip to the cottage. She spent the entire time exploring. Well, except for the half an hour cat nap she got in right in the middle of the most noise we made all day. Silly girl.

Till next weekend - Mary