Breakfast Nook

 

The kitchen and the laundry room are the last two rooms to be drywalled.  They have become the storage area for all of the supplies. 

 

Drywall pieces for small areas.  

Tools not in use. 

Extra pieces plywood.  

The new toilet.

Extra ladders.

Copper pipe for plumbing.

 

Staging area is a better word.  We are staging for the next scene of the project.  What happens when you are ready to work in the kitchen?  Move everything to the laundry room.  What happens when you are ready to work in the laundry room?  

 

Running out of staging areas is a good sign. 

 

The kitchen has a side window. Our plan was to remove it to create more wall space and create a breakfast nook.  Yes, the kitchen will lose a little light, but we are replacing the back window with a door.  That will provide the light.



 

 

 

Also, let's face it, the view out the side window isn't the best.  It looks like an old apartment building, but it is a house.  It is a house that needs a little work.  Just a little. 

 

 

 
That silver thing at the bottom of the photo...that's some type of insulated duct work that has been laying in the side yard since we started this project.  They move it to mow.  But never put it in the shed or the garbage. 
 

 
Walt Kowalski cutting through the aluminum siding.  (The neighbor came out to mow his grass, but walked extra slow to his shed.  He stretched his neck around the corner to snoop to see what Walt Kowalski was doing.)
 

 

 

Just like that, the window is no more.  Walt Kowalski added a couple of additional 2x4s and caulked the outside.  Tonight we can insulate and start the drywall in the kitchen.  One of these days, between the rain drops, I will add a coat of paint. Siding will come, but not at the moment. 

  

 

Meanwhile...the painting crew arrived.  They didn't know they were the painting crew until they arrived. 

They painted the 3rd bedroom.  The mother-in-law suite.  The extra bedroom. Grandma's room.  The nephew's room.  What ever you want to call it.  Whatever the room turns into.

 
They did a great job.  I can see where I need to go back and touch up a few screw holes and seams.