The first bit of progress....

Where to start...   when looking through the house it's easy to feel overwhelmed.  Not knowing where to start.  Well for starters, that big parlour/den?  It should definitely be a kitchen.  That teeny tiny kitchen?  That should not be a kitchen!  Especially not in this big house.  So that's where we start.

Dad and I sat down and mapped out the kitchen plans on grid paper.  This is our first draft and it has certainly changed since we came up with it but I thought I would share it anyway.

Since making this plan, we realized that the bathroom under the stairs wouldn't work and that the laundry room also wouldn't work because of some structural things.  So we decided to make that small kitchen into a bathroom/laundry room.  

First of all we had to pull the plaster off the one exterior wall in the new kitchen so that we could add insulation and gyproc before putting up cabinets.   Can you believe there was absolutely no insulation in that wall?  Amazing they didn't freeze to death in this house.  This picture is my dad and my 10 year old tearing the plaster and the lats off the wall.  What a messy job and my boy loved it!  

Insulation

And drywall

That's it for now!