The wall exposed...

We removed the drywall last night from the wall between the kitchen and family room and the space already looks a lot bigger. We're going to have to relocate a ventilation duct and there is one support beam on the end of the wall, but other than that, nothing we can't deal with.

We had the siding and windows guy that worked on my mom and dad's house over on Tuesday night and he is giving us an estimate on the windows, adding 4 windows, changing the outside door configuration, and doing the whole house in a composite cementboard siding called MaxiTile, which he says is a newer and slightly better (and shorter lead-time on orders) than the CertainTeed siding he used on my parents' house. The funny thing was that he had their address in his book with about 3 other "show houses" addresses.



We put the garbage out by the street today and holy crap! I hope it all gets picked-up. Had a full recycling can, 2 boxes filled head-high and about 6 trash cans full of everything from drapes and curtains to carpet to drywall. Hoping it's all gone when I get home, haha. Forgot to take a picture, but it's a HUGE pile. We still have half a dumpster's worth of junk in the side yard as well from ripping out all the loose lumber and wood junk from the family room.