DEMOLITION!!

Well, we had to start somewhere... At first we had the quaint idea that we could improve the place on our own. Why not start with the little bedroom? 

How bad could it be? We ripped up some walls and ceiling, until it looked like this: 

At the same time, we exposed a brick fireplace in what originally was the kitchen:
Everything was cool, except for the fact that everything we took down was attached to something else that had to come down too. After three days of sweat and dust we had little to show for our efforts,  and we realized we were out of our league. We resigned ourselves to calling in professional reinforcements. 

We soon learned our first lesson of demolition-- there is no such thing as "kind of" demolishing a house, there is no dipping your toe into the pool to test the waters. We found ourselves diving headlong into the deep end, with no turning back. 

Our little home was soon to turn from this: 

To this:

Stay tuned...