It still looks like this...

Continuing with the theme of the remodel, it still looks like this...

Still bare bones at this point, but all the debris from the demo is gone and framing is in process...

Looking through from what will be the new kitchen to the front door...

Photographic evidence that actual work is being done... (just kidding, they've been busting their butts)

I even ventured down into bowels/basement of the house.  It never occurred to me the amount of work that has to be done in this area...

The old furnace was removed and you can see all the way back into the other "rooms" under the house.  It reminded me somewhat of going into a cave.  When I was a child, I was never comfortable going down into the basement.  Grandmother stored her jars down there (in a glass mountain that was quite precarious) and other than that it was only accessed when maintenance had to be done.  Quite interesting to see this area as an adult.

These openings were probably for the coal storage area.  Sister would know more than I, as I just don't remember much about the basement.

While I was looking around, TD (the contractor) said "you need to take a picture of this mess" and just shook his head.  Apparently, as the years have passed, the house (like so many others) has been the victim of jury rigging.  If fact when he was doing the demo on a room upstairs, which had been intended for use as a kitchen, he said it was just by the Grace of God that the house hadn't burned years ago.

Well, everything is being brought up to code, and I know it will be a lovely house again.

I hope you are enjoying this remodelogue.  I'll keep you posted and we'll talk soon.

Just a quick post with a few pictures...

I'm acting as go between/designer on the remodel of my sister's house here in Virginia.  There was some talk about the contractor going out to the West Coast to bring in some supplies and such, but we decided that's waaaaaay too inconvenient.  I think I can act as liaison between all the parties involved and come up with a killer project.

So as is my usual style, I'm starting us off with some before pictures...

Here you see the living room and the front hall/foyer before demo...

Here is the living room fireplace after demo...

I took this shot of that same fireplace, to show how you can see all the way through to the back of the house...

It's really not easy to get good before, during and after shots sometimes, but at least you get the gist of the size of this project.  The house which looks like this from the outside...

is basically a skeleton on the inside.  It's interesting to see this type of remodel in progress, and you can only imagine the debris that resulted from the demolition.  See that board on the front steps, well that was how they wheeled the downstairs trash to the dumpster...they brought the upstairs materials down the hall staircase by hand and in five gallon buckets.  Those guys were totally beat after it was done.

The contractor, TD, told me that it took eight loads to remove everything.  That's not counting what people removed from the dumpster, which wasn't a huge amount, but they did take wood and other items that they could use.

Well, that's it for me today.  Hopefully my pictures will be better next time, but until then we'll use our imagination as to what might be going on.

Have a great day and enjoy life...