A Door is Born

My #3 son the carpenter had a couple of days free and he decided to install a deck off the family room.

In this picture #1 son is helping to bash down part of the wall.

Then comes the cutting away of the plaster on the inside.


The wall is down and the lady of the house is wondering how she is expected to cook meals for the next while--the next while is when the brick dust is settling into every crevice in the house.

She wisely opts for dinner out while she thinks it over.

And the new door is in. The old window it replaced is leaning against the wall on the right.

In the beginning it was like one of those children's rhymes--there was small house with lot of itty bitty rooms--that kind of tale.

First, #3 chopped out a wall and a narrow staircase off the kitchen, revealing two tiny bedrooms that soon lost their adjoining walls and a big room was born.

So now we have a kitchen/ family room in their basic stages--and that tiny window in the family room appeared to be begging, "free me." and that seemed a good time to consider installing the deck and a door to get to the deck.

I suspect there will be a domestic mutiny if the kitchen isn't soon turned into a pleasant working space.