Day 1: Demolition begins

When Beth got home form work today, she got a surprise!  Look ma, no cabinets!

Of course she knew that it was all starting up today, we spent all weekend moving our stuff out of the kitchen and setting up a temporary kitchen/dining area in a corner of the living room.

With all the cabinets, counters, and appliances out of the room, it sure seems a lot bigger!

We've found a way to re-use some of the upper cabinets, but luckily we didn't have any plans for the lower cabinets, because they didn't come out cleanly.

The hutch on the other side of the kitchen came apart neatly, and the more decorative top part is getting re-used as part of our basement craft area.

The ceiling came down too, revealing the lattice of boards that was keeping this false ceiling suspended about 9 inches below what we thought was the real ceiling.  However, when the whole thing came down, there was a hole in that older ceiling where it looks like an old light fixture used to be before the kitchen extension went on the house.  In that hole, we can see that the yellowish ceiling above our false ceiling is actually yet another false ceiling suspended on its own lattice of boards, and the real ceiling is the white one way up there.

Two things come to mind:  (1) We've got space to work with as we do our new ceilings and lighting, and (2) no wonder we couldn't seal up the cold air leak in the ceiling!