Christmas is over, so get to work

After the new year, we're starting a major house remodel! The entire first floor will be completely demolished. In the end, we'll have a brand new kitchen, living room, family room and dining area. But between now and then, we're going to have to find some way to live without the entire first floor of our house.

Today, we took down all the Christmas decorations (sad!) and started boxing stuff up to go into storage. We rented a storage space nearby, and we've converted the guest bedroom on the second floor into a T.V. room/den. We moved the loveseat, the wing chair, computer, DVD player and TiVo (we have to have the TiVo!) up there, and everything else must go either in the basement or into storage. It's kind of cramped up in the new TV room, but very cozy. It's also verryyy stuffy.

Below, I took some pictures of the house as it looks today.

The new T.V. room:















The fireplace, which will be knocked down and GONE FOREVER!!:















Our kitchen, which is the main reason for the whole remodel, because it truly is the crappest, ugliest kitchen in American history:





<----- yuukkkk...









Demolition begins after the new year!!