And the walls came tumblin' down

After 4 1/2 years and about 4 different plans for our kitchen, work has finally begun. We designed the layout ourselves, Mark is doing 90% of the work himself....needless to say it should be interesting. I am assuming that it will take months to finish, which is hopefully a realistic expectation.

Mark started while I was away last week. The first step is tearing out the old lath and plaster (if you don't know what that is come by sometime and I'll show you! ;-) ) in the back half of the kitchen, where our table was. And now he is on to building a wall to make a pantry. It's a beautiful mess!

At some point in this process I will probably need to be committed to the asylum (do they still have those?), but for now I'm surviving the dust and chaos.

I will update progress, but nothing new will happen on it until later in September as the rest of August is filled with vacation and camping time.