Vicente Wolf

Week 6

When you pull a little thread off a sweater and you keep pulling and keep pulling it eventually all comes unraveled. You can see from these pictures that what began with slight removal ended up as a total gutting of the house.

As I mentioned last week the house was not structurally sound, the beams and struts were not properly spaced and the fear of collapsing ceiling took the whole project to a whole new level.

These are still the original windows and front door locations

Original front door & windows

The original interior walls are still standing here; see the wall in this picture with Mrs. M

Original walls

Here we’ve demolished the staircase and at one point there were no bedrooms at all upstairs since we hadn’t built the new rooms above the living room. 

Before staircase

After staircase has been removed

At this point they have started to strip the old shingles; they’ll soon have to install the new insulation and siding to protect from weather and pilferage.

De-shingling

Of course when the clients saw the second floor with no rooms they immediately said “Shouldn’t we just leave it completely open?  It makes the house so much bigger!” Not taking into account that if we did that there would be no bedrooms at all, I must say though it did look great as one large cavernous space.

Living room and above it is where the new bedroom will be

The stairs and upstairs bedrooms have been removed

Large cavernous space

While all of this was going on we were preparing the presentations for the bathrooms throughout the entire house; powder room, guest, 2 kids’ and master which we would present these following week at the office.  I knew that the tug of war was about to begin…