It was sad – starting demolition again, just as we’re getting to the finishing stages on the original 3 rooms, we’re taking 3 new rooms from livable down to studs 🙁  Alas, it must be done!  One step back, 3 steps forward!

Today we started demolition in earnest.  We removed the trim we plan to save/refinish in the front hall and the livingroom.  Then we started removing the plaster and lathe.  We made pretty good progress and quit around 5pm to go out to dinner with Uncle Mark, Aunt Mo and Hannah (birthday dinner).

The livingroom cupula before demo

and after today

livingroom entryway before

and after

facing diningroom before

and after

trim removed and de-nailed

We also worked on the front hall – removing trim but I’ll save the pictures for tomorrow when hopefully there’s more hallway demolition to show.  All in all it was a good day, depressing to see our usable rooms turn into work zones but good because phase 2 is really starting.

The plan is to finish up the livingroom and put a dent in the front hallway.  Then we’ll move the covered furniture out of the diningroom (into the livingroom) and commence demo in the diningroom.  We’ve got a few more days of vacation – lets hope the good weather continues!