Kitchen renovation: the whole house is in chaos

The kitchen demolition is pretty much complete now, above is the photo from the day the plaster & lath ceiling came down! (We don’t have room for a dumpster so all the debris went out in garbage bags!) The kitchen is now very empty and cold.

This is our (tiny) primary bathroom which was originally going to have some minor work (such as adding some electrical outlets, which were notably absent before). But we found that our plumbing needs work, and the 3rd floor heat pumps will need electric lines running through the bathroom ceiling, so lots of things got taken apart. Once they started cutting into the bathroom ceiling, it turned out to be very crumbly and then… it all crumbled down. We weren’t expecting the bathroom to get totally torn apart and we weren’t really prepared for it, but here we are, dusting off all of our stuff and relocating to the first floor bathroom until further notice. This is a bummer when we wake up in the middle of the night and have to go down two very cold flights of stairs to go pee in the first floor bathroom. Hopefully we’ll get our bathroom back soonish? The good part is that our tiny bathroom is growing a little bigger! There was a random soffit and a bulky partition that got removed, so that will buy us a little more storage space and floor space, which will really make a difference for this tiny space!

Goodbye couch, goodbye fireplace, goodbye livingroom! We’re excited to fiiiiinally get some electrical work done in the livingroom- we’ve been trying for a long time to get an electrician in here to give us some power outlets and an overhead light. We had no luck finding anyone willing to do it until now. It’s inconvenient and uncomfortable to have the kitchen torn out AND the living room out of commission at the same time, but it will be great to finally have plugs and overhead lighting. We’re getting a heat pump installed too! Basically we’ll need access to all four walls for wiring, so we’ve got everything piled in the center of the room, the couch taken apart in pieces, furniture piled in front of the fireplace.