We couldn't help ourselves, and we started some of our own 'reconstruction' on Sunday afternoon. I think Dave wanted to see just how difficult this demo thing might be. Turns out the paneling would come off fairly easy, and you can put a hole in any wall with a good hammer!
I walked into the house tonight and WOAH, did the guys get a lot done today! Let's see...
First off, the dumpster to haul away the debris didn't arrive today, so all of the 'stuff' has been piled into the garage until such time. Our poor little Boston Whaler looks like it might get eaten by cabinets and appliances. A nice touch is that they removed the carpet from the front living room, and put it down under all of this trash. Should help to make clean up a tad bit easier. Hopefully some of the upper cabinets will be salvageable so that we can put them up in the laundry room and garage.
Front living room before
Front living room after
Corner of dining room before
And after
View of the kitchen from the laundry room door The kitchen from the laundry room after 
Taken from the bedroom hallway door before
And after- look at all that room!
1968's kitchen before 1968's kitchen after demo! 
Nice clean kitchen before
After, boy can these guys make a mess!
Can you get over how different the house looks in such a little amount of time!? My jaw hit the floor when I walked in the front door.
Lastly, they've masked off the guest bathroom in preparation for wallpaper removal. This stuff is cemented on there, and John (our contractor) agreed that once it comes down, the walls will have to be skim coated before they can be re-painted. Sounds like a lot of work, so we're having John and crew do the removal. I'm also impressed that they've put down a protective covering over the parquet flooring. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of damage that the floor sustains until it can be re-finished. Seems that John and his crew work pretty fast. It'll be interesting to see how much farther they get tomorrow....
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