Moving and Shaking

And by moving and shaking, I'm referring to the walls, which are doing so as I type this.

Seth and his dad, Frank, are in the kitchen drilling and hammering away. As is often the case, pictures speak louder than words, so here's a little photo montage of our recent activities:

Here's Seth working to get the counter top off. As with everything else in this house, it was "stucker" than we anticipated it being.







And once the counter was gone, we figured we might as well do the corner cabinet as well.










And that's when Frank arrived!

The goal: enlarge the small pass-through in the wall in order to open up the kitchen.

Seth and Frank make a good team: Frank is all about demolishing first, planning later, while Seth is a plan first, then demo kind of guy.

Here they are surveying what needs to be done and how. Little did they know what they would find beneath the sheetrock ...



... lots more support beams than they had anticipated.









Brilliantly, they figured out a way to swap out the beams, all the while supporting the ceiling and preventing any potential sagging.












The finished product! (At least for one day.)