{"id":663,"date":"2016-08-20T15:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/?p=663"},"modified":"2016-08-20T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T19:57:53","slug":"one-year-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2016\/08\/20\/one-year-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"One year ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The renovations started on our house! Some pictures of Demo Day from last year, which is always the most exciting part of the process. :-)<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/29081187426\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"The dumpster arrives!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8406\/29081187426_e8cf362848_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"The dumpster arrives!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The dumpster arrives! We had this dumpster in our driveway for 3 months last fall. It was completely full by the time they were done!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/28492209334\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Upper cabinets down\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7772\/28492209334_606cfeab01_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Upper cabinets down\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Starting to take down the cabinets.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/28827160400\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Multiple layers of wallpaper and ceiling tiles\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8351\/28827160400_71e9ac1188_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Multiple layers of wallpaper and ceiling tiles\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Showing the multiple layers of wallpaper and ceiling tiles our kitchen had.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/28492208084\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Walls coming down!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8552\/28492208084_2fedbf4dd4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Walls coming down!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Caroline shows off the kitchen at midday &#8211; the walls are down and the cabinets are gone, but the studs are still there. They called in an electrician at this point to take care of all the wires.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/29081178816\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Everything gone but the stove\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8188\/29081178816_7550d12366_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Everything gone but the stove\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The wall of the kitchen with the stove, after the cabinets and backsplash are gone. It looks so ugly once everything is gone!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/28492206564\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Where the sink used to be\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/8\/7561\/28492206564_cf0befcee9_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Where the sink used to be\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The floor where the sink was. When I saw this, I was really worried about water damage on the floor underneath, bit thankfully once they removed that layer the subfloor underneath was fine. Phew!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/29081177376\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Where the fridge used to be!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8311\/29081177376_4ba6e7d4c5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Where the fridge used to be!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Where the fridge used to be! It was crazy to me to be able to see all the way to the bay window from the kitchen window. I remember how much brighter the downstairs felt once the walls were down.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/29036530711\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Walls coming down...\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/9\/8114\/29036530711_eaf2f0c7de_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Walls coming down...\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They thought one of the walls was load bearing and would need a beam and a column, so they put up temporary walls on either side before they took down the studs. We had these temp walls here for a few weeks before a structural engineer inspected and said the wall was not actually load bearing, and we were fine. That was very happy news!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/28492213234\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Getting ready to fix the foundation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8459\/28492213234_fcc3a3033b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Getting ready to fix the foundation\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After demolition, the first task was to fix the foundation. They had to remove the stoop outside the back door to get access to our crawlspace.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/28827163020\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"The kitchen is opened up!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/8\/7479\/28827163020_0d1d884479_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"The kitchen is opened up!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The walls in the kitchen are completely down! (You can see the temporary walls on the right) Hooray for an exciting day!<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to chronicle the whole renovation process, but not sure how fast those posts will come. :-) Just as a heads up! You can jump ahead to <a href=\"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2016\/01\/18\/our-kitchens-major-transformation\/\">the official before and after pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renovations started on our house! Some pictures of Demo Day from last year, which is always the most exciting part of the process. :-) The dumpster arrives! We had this dumpster in our driveway for 3 months last fall. It was completely full by the time they were done! Starting to take down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,1,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}