it's been a long time since i showed you any progress on our kitchen-to-be. we've had a real bricklayer here for the past two days and now it seems like there's really been a lot of progress, so i had to share some snaps. this is one of those interminable projects because we do it as we have money for it and husband is doing much of it himself (all those beautiful wood beams you see are him). but it feels like things are finally moving in the right direction. there's heat in the floor, so husband has worked faithfully all winter and has done a beautiful job with the wood. tho' he bricked up a bit in our brewery, he's not really a bricklayer, so we hired one in. it only took him two days to brick the whole thing and man does it look great! it's looking less and less like a pig stall and more and more like a home. and husband is pleased because he says it's starting to match the picture of it he has in his head.
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cool. love the little vaults in the ceiling - what's going to happen there?
husband and mr. bricklayer worked hard .... looking forward to the next fase
the bowed ceilings are one of the only cool original features, so we are keeping them - they will just be plastered, husband has already started (it's a long, difficult process), you can see it in the second to last picture that one "lane" of it is done. it's also started at the far end.
I'm intrigued by the double wall, I can see you'll be breaking out the window holes but the rest? Does it stay?
@molly - it will stay. as this was previously a barn, it's not at all insulated, so we're going to have insulation blown into there once the new (and enlarged from the current) windows are in place. it would be pretty darn cold out there in the winter if we didn't insulate. plus, in order to have it all approved and per our building permit, it's got to be insulated up to today's standards.
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