kitchen work...

So the bugs came out of the kitchen wall again.  So Shane decided it was time to take the wall out and hopefully rid us of the bugs once and for all.  There was a huge carpenter ant nest in the wall...

Shane and Scott tore down drywall and sprayed like heck as they went.  They decided to take the window out first thing so they had fresh air as they worked.

They removed drywall back to the cupboards to make dry walling as easy as possible.

See we have already taken down some drywall in the main bathroom too.  There is my gross tub that will soon have a new finish.

This is the side with my huge walk in pantry.  Looks so messy right now due to shoving everything in to have it all out of the way of the work.  Shane has talked about expanding my pantry so we can put our freezer in it also. 

I don't think I took any before pictures.  I had been left with some pretty ugly paneling stuff.  had small brown building all over.  But that was nothing compared to some of the 5 layers of wall paper that were under it!  The most obnoxious was a bright flowered print that I am guess was the late 60's early 70's.  Around the 1950's though I did like the paper that had kitchen do dads all over it...egg beaters and measuring cups and mixing bowls.  The color was distorted but it wasn't as bright and flashy as the other papers, muted blue-green and pastel pink I am guessing were the original colors with maybe a white or off white background.


When I first bought my house on Joseph, my brother Danny bought me a garden window because I had always talked about wanting one.  I loved that window and was so sad when I sold my house and couldn't take it with me.  I had talked about wanting to put one in the kitchen but these days they are a special order item and so expensive!  Shane and I had talked about making the kitchen window smaller so that in the future we could put counter top all the way around the kitchen and to save time and money right now since everything has been going over budget.  But Shane knew how much I wanted a garden window and so he got me a HUGE one.  He actually will need to cut the window opening bigger and re-frame it to get the window to fit.  I will have enough space to put all my herbs in it and to even have room for my spring starts each year! 

I want to leave you with a beautiful photo I found while trying to find a before pic of my kitchen.  I love going to the beach and here are my boys enjoying the last moments of daylight.