Before...

This is destruction.

When we moved in the cabinets were a honey oak - I painted them cream.

The counters, walls, and trim were all a horrible ugly blue.

The backsplash were those tiles you see.

The appliances were old, broken, and black.

The tiles were on the wall and weren't coming off so I covered them

by attaching beadboard with liquid nails.

It worked awesome the past 4 years.

Some people tear down their drywall and find amazing walls, or wood, or treasures.

I find the remnants that the mice left behind.

The mice are gone now - another thing I had to take care of, but icky signs of them 

remain in the walls.  But, there is only one room left to destroy the walls in...

All traces of those little vermin are almost gone.

This was fun.  Taking down the soffits to fine another soffit underneath.

LOTS of using this tool.

Here you can see the fresh new wall getting a glorious coat of paint.

Being a 1970's house there were very few outlets in the tiny kitchen -

we added more.  

The area that you're seeing now used to be divided by a wall.

It used to be a tiny kitchen and a tiny dining room.

Now, it's one giant room.

Here is the kitchen.  No floors, no cabinets, but lovely new fresh walls.

A nice big window to provide light.

A clean canvas.

A fresh start.

Turning the ugly house into a home.

Now, I hope to figure out how to load the photos from my new camera into my computer

and I hope to share some "current" photos within the next day or so.