Weekend Warriors

We've had a busy and productive week.  We've made a small dent in all that needs to be accomplished in the next few months.  First and foremost, the electricity is flowing again, which makes everything a little easier.  Secondly, we had a dumpster delivered.

This is the biggest dumpster I have ever seen.  It's so much taller than me - for items that need to go over the side, a ladder comes in handy.  Especially since I throw like a girl. (Qualification:  An uncoordinated and un-athletic girl.  Although plenty of girls have excellent throwing skills, I am not one of them.  The items that I try to throw over the side of the dumpster are more likely to come back down and hit me on the head.)

Unbelievably, despite its size, the dumpster is almost 3/4 full - that's a lot of hauling.  Here's where some of the dumpster-bound items came from, the inside of our historic outbuilding.  The below picture shows our progress when we were about three/fourths done with the clearing of the old schoolhouse.

Progress was not limited to the outside, however.  Glenlochan has a beautiful wooden staircase. 

At one point, previous owners had walled off the upstairs balcony to create a separate apartment upstairs.  But, the wall has to come down, not only to restore Glenlochan to the original plan, but also to provide a lot more light and open "flow" upstairs.

Here's a side view of the wall from the upstairs.

And now for a few "after" shots (the remainder of the wall is the back end of a bathroom, so that demo of the rest will need to wait a bit. 

The house has 2 kitchens and the one on the main floor was the first one we attacked.  Here's the before shot (notice the solid wall on the right side):

And, here's the "after" shot:

The kitchen now opens directly to the colonnade that connects the house to the old kitchen - the only part of the house from original Glenlochan in the 1700's.  One more shot from the colonnade into the kitchen:

All that's left on this demo project is to haul out a few appliances and to disconnect and take out the kitchen sink and the base cabinets with the sink.  Then, we'll be ready to start another project.