The Kitchen Could Not Wait

If you like before and after pictures, here is a good example of our kitchen Saturday morning and Sunday morning.    We had discussed a remodel and finally the under the house work was far enough along to do the above floor work.  Access under the house was impossible and I have removed 16 yards of dirt to improve the access.   We removed a set of steps which were incredibly steep and a brick facade on the fireplace.    Once we started the work, I noticed some odd looking construction and finally figured out that the fireplace brick work was all a facade to the original--which is yellow and brick colored in the bottom picture.   We had not planned on removing all the added brick work, but until the dust starts flying, you have no idea what is going to appear.     In the end, it turns out we will have significantly more room than we had anticipated from this job. 

The corner where the stairs were will be a kitchen workspace/ storage that we will close in with some new walls. The fireplace will be bricked up and covered with some smoother wall covering.  It is quite rough and very dirty in its current state.   At day's end,  the houses' original floor and walls were exposed.   The current pine floor had been added as had the dry wall.  The orignal materials were all wood-- floor, ceiling and walls.   It had to pretty cold on a windy day in that old kitchen.  

In the stairwell, I added a floor and it is now the best closet in the house.  We have had enough time to size up our new space and have some ideas on how to maximize the kitchen  are finally getting discussed.   It is always exciting to find some new in an old house.   Some of this wood has not been exposed for 134 years, by the way, it was pretty dry when I removed it.  

This weekend, we have our District Qualifier in central Tennessee.  I will run so I can run the State Finals next summer.   But, the gout has came back after about a week of relief.   My foot was killing my Sunday while I was getting the floor installed.  I am going to a doctor today and try and get this thing fixed.   Training has been out of the question, just getting healthy is the current regiment.