More views of the demolition

Making Lisa Happy

Well my sister told me to post more photos, so if you think there are too many you can blame her! There is a photo here of the fully demo'd (is that a word?) bathroom. I've also included a pix of the floor plan for the bed/bath area. If you're into floor plans you'll love that - if not, move on. I've got a really cool picture of the header over the fireplace. It's only cool if you're a framer. We thought it was an empty soffit over the fireplace, then lo and behold a HUGE glulam raised it's ugly head. For those of you not in the building trade or business, those last two sentences might as well be in Swahili I know. Sorry...

Background

I searched all around the web and found several architects to interview to help us with plans. The one who seemed to meet our needs was Jeremy Miller from Metropolitan Design Studio. He was really amazing to work with. He came out with an assistant to measure the whole house. He was very responsive to our requests for design. He met our timeline exactly. We've run into a couple of hiccups and he's been able to find solutions for us in just a couple of days. I really can't say enough good things about him! Here's some of our demo.

We're going to reconfigure the master bath. Move a couple of walls in the master bedroom to make it bigger. We'll reface the fireplace with stacked stone. Take out the cabinet to the left of the fireplace to make the living room and family room more connected. We will add more hardwood floors to living room and family room. We're taking out a soffit in the den to make that room look more open. Add a little trim here and there. Viola!

"Move in Ready"

I had to laugh when I took the new neighbor on a tour of our demolition. He was aghast! He kept saying "I thought this house was move in ready". Well... many people might have been happy with it as it was. But I had other ideas! Lots of them. I'll take you through the Before and After