Legwork

Yikes, it's nearly the end of the year and I haven't posted any updates.

The first half of the year was spent working (slowly) with the architect to finish the plans, and researching and getting quotes from sub-contractors for all the work we didn't plan to do ourselves. We misjudged the amount of time this took, so we basically reset our project time-clock to the middle of the year instead of the beginning. I naively stated one year as the goal to get the project finished. We didn't want to start on any major demolition until we knew the plans would be accepted by the city for a building permit, but we did manage to get the ceiling tile and wallpaper off of the living room.

This revealed two things: 1) people can have really bad taste in wallpaper (three layers shown from newest to oldest: gray, village mural, pink herringbone),



2) There was a wide opening from the east wall in the living room into the master bedroom that was later closed in (see faint outline in photo below). It's a small two-bedroom house to begin with, about 900 sf. Connecting the living room to one of the bedrooms would have effectively reduced it to a one-bedroom.