More walls get torn down and stay down, while a garage door goes up. And down. And up again. With just the click of a remote!

Today is the 19th. Well, it's only been two weeks since I last posted, rather than a month, so I feel right on schedule! But, my goodness, a lot happens in two weeks. Here's where things are now:

The doorway to the master bedroom/to-be family room got knocked out. Here's a view into the bedroom from the living room...


... and into the living room from the bedroom. It opens things up considerably! (on the left, there, you can see 'into' the cabinets in the hall. I removed things from the cabinets soon after!)


We dismantled my desk and piled a a bunch of office stuff up in the middle of the office floor to clear the bit of office wall in the corner...




... so that Sam could clear all the drywall, and make a hole for the new office door.



Here you have to peer through the snow (actually dust!) to see the new hole he's cutting out...



Ta da!


Next, he put studs in the old office door. Eventually, that'll be covered up with drywall.




Then he started tackling the cabinets in what had been the 'hallway'. Good thing I'd emptied them! He removed the cabinets above, and then the granite countertop...


... and pretty soon that doorway to the bedroom was even more open!


Cool!


When my friend Julie came over, she had to help Sam remove a bit of drywall!


Meanwhile (as they say), in another part of the house, Sam had been working on cutting out vents for the heating.


And again, we had to prepare for rain. Sam follows the forecast closely, and gets everything covered up if it looks like rain. So...


... up the ladder he went, dragging some heavy-duty plastic sheeting behind him.


Everything stayed dry!

Another evening, when I came home from school, I saw Sioux and Sam on the roof- so I went up to join them...



Sioux appreciates a good sunset. Enough, even, to climb ladders to see it! (Yes, really, she climbs ladders. I'll have to get a video.)



The next day, Sam's trailer arrived! It is exactly what he wanted, and most importantly, it fits perfectly on the lift!




Sam's pretty pleased with it!

Next, the garage door was scheduled to arrive. Sam and Dale did the last minute adjustments that were necessary for the garage door installation- two studs to fit in snugly against the steel moment beam, and a header.




The next day, our garage door arrived!



There were two guys working on installing that...


... while Dale removed the corian, the drywall, the sink, the tub, from the guest bathroom!






Sam and I both love how the garage door looks. And it is by far the quietest garage door I have ever heard! And since the garage door got installed, we got to have the construction fence removed, which is really nice.


The cats still come for their food twice a day. And hide in the 'rubble'.



Since I started writing this, our windows have been delivered! So stay tuned... soon, more holes in the wall! And windows will get put in them! :)