Our Farmhouse Kitchen Renovation: Part 1

These two pictures above are what the kitchen in our side wing downstairs looked like when we first started working on things. You can see where the cupboards were in picture 1 and the chimney and door to the main house in picture 2. Though, that's a little misleading, the door actually leads to another little hallway/entryway that is STILL technically in the side wing, with an opening into the main house (the room we currently use as a dining room). Below you can see what things looked like after the walls started getting torn down.

Here is the back corner (remember the pink walls and cupboards? Yeah, Not anymore!)

These pictures are a few years old, things have been on hold for awhile for a number of reasons, but recently have picked back up! Here are some updated shots! We gained another 6 feet or so length in the room by tearing down that wall to the right!

Here you can see we've busted through the wall (when I say "we" I mean hubby with my oh, so helpful assistance of staying out of the way) - If you look closely at the left, hanging in front of the window, that's a piece of the ORIGINAL tin ceiling (!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have NO idea how much I love that original tin ceiling!!!!) We pulled that entire section of ceiling down, and TOGETHER (yes, I put in some grunt work on that part) we hauled it outside, and then hubby, SUCCESSFULLY pulled the tin off the ceiling piece we pulled out! He salvaged it, and took it apart, without destroying ANY of it! We will be using a piece of the crown molding part to repair the tin ceiling in the room we CURRENTLY use as our kitchen, that will become our home office (the entire tin ceiling is in one piece in there except for one side the crown molding was damaged) and the rest of the panels will become a sort of "backsplash" behind our counter in the kitchen! YAY for Repurposing original materials!!!!

Here, you can see the entire right side of that wall has disappeared, no more doorway, and my new kitchen is officially about 6 feet longer than we had before! When we FINISH things, the left side of the room will have a counter that goes around the corner and a big work island just about where the chimney is... to the left we are building an addition full of windows and our dining table will go in there!

 Here you can see, the chimney and the wall are completely down... still a long way to go, but getting there!