It has been quite a while since my last update. With the holidays, cold weather, and crazy
amount of extra time at work I have not accomplished as much as I had
hoped. The first big project that I
completed was removing the wall between the family room and kitchen. This wall was not load barring so it was an
easy removal. You can see in the picture
below the wall before it came down.
I scored the drywall across the ceiling to cut the drywall tape
in order to keep from causing more ceiling damage when the wall came down. The below picture shows the interior of the
wall. The person that originally framed
this apparently did not care about the interior support being square.
The picture below shows what a difference removing this wall
made. It took less than an hour to remove the entire wall.
I will be raising the ceiling at a later point so I did not
worry about patching the drywall. The
far door will also be removed shortly and three large windows will be added to
that wall to add more light to the family room.
I have also been planning for the next big project which
will be tearing out the master bathroom.
Currently the master bathroom is separated into two rooms. I plan to remove the dividing wall and make
one large room. One cool feature I am
adding is speakers in the bathroom for my whole home audio system which
includes a waterproof speaker to put into the shower. I am pretty excited to get this all
installed. Below you can see what the
bathroom currently looks like.
The below renderings give a little better idea of what the floor
plan will look like. The colors and
cabinets are just to fill the spots but will not be what it looks like when it
is completed. I will be using more
contemporary sinks and a vanity with more cabinet space. There will also be a frameless glass door on
the shower. I used Google Sketch-Up for
the drawing and it turned out pretty well for my first try. The entire bathroom will be tiled so it is
about time to break out the tile saw!
Well that is all for now.
Stay tuned for more frequent updates as work picks up again!
