Demolition begins!

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That wood cabinet sure photos good. It just lifted right out of the floor. You can see how it just ate up the space in the kitchen. Notice the flooring. The wood floor doesn’t look that good in reality. Damn it! Everything is trying to look good before it gets scrapped.

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Here’s where the other half of the wood cabinet resided. Both halves had been there quite a while.

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And the cabinets go bye bye. How about that nice yellow paint. Wait until you see the original flooring.

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Ok, we scraped up the vinyl tiles, the linoleum, some sub-flooring and here we are down to the bone. Actually, I kind of liked the original stuff for a few seconds.

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More flooring going away.

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The plastic faux bricks being removed from chimney. These were about 3/8″ thick and were just glued on. Brilliant! They photo much better than they really look.

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Here’s a shot with all the upper cabinets gone on this wall along with the backsplash.

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The chimney area has been stripped of the plastic faux bricks. We are making progress!

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