Next step

The room that will be the new kitchen has 5 doors in it.

 That's a lot of doors and not a whole lot of empty wall space for the important things a kitchen needs like say counter tops and cupboards.

 Lets take a look at that room again shall we?  There is one door that leads to the hallway, one door that leads to living room #1, one door that is the door to the second stair case, one door that leads to the old kitchen/new laundry room and one door that leads to the back porch plus a window.  So as we mulled how to put a functional kitchen into this room, we kept coming up with dead ends.  Until we came up with the idea of blocking off the door to the living room and opening up the staircase and the door to the hallway.                                           So this is what we set about doing.  This meant taking all that old paneling off, scraping away the plaster and pulling off the wooden lats.  That makes for a lot of mess.  Dad started pulling all the door jams off and I set to work chiseling away at the plaster.  Plaster amazes me.  It must have taken so long for someone to build a house in the early 1900's and it amazes me that they built such big ones at that.  The wooden lats would have taken forever to nail on for sure but the plaster... to get it so smooth and perfect.  Just amazing.

Plaster is pretty dusty so we had to make sure we were prepared with dust masks to protect our lungs.

Tearing down walls is actually quite fun!

That's it for now.. My computer is dying..