The Writing on the Wall

The writing is on the wall, both literally and figuratively.

The contractors have started demolition and the walls have been marked for which ones to take down. We found old stucco under the drywall in the breakfast room. A lot of people around here have dealt with damaged plaster or stucco by drywalling over it. You lose some depth to your trimwork, but it gives great sound insulation from room to room. Here are some pictures:


The doorway through the kitchen from the breakfast room.

Wow, you've got to love that color combination. Bright red walls with electric lime baseboards. The interior of the built-in cabinets were lime too. Yowza.

The kitchen sink on the original exterior wall of the house, looking through window to enclosed porch.

The bar sink on the enclosed porch, next to the refrigerator.

In the figurative sense, the writing is telling us that it's mid-July, we have to move in three weeks, and That Old House is not going to be fit for habitation. We have to find an apartment to sublet for a month or two. That will be my project for the week ahead, along with getting the storage POD sent out and start packing our junk into it.