When the walls come tumblin down!

Well now that the holidays are over, the tree and ornaments are put away, the exterior lights are down and the family has been visited, its project time. We are taking on perhaps our biggest project yet, outside of traveling to Russia twice last year to pick up a certain someone. Our house is known as ad Arts & Crafts style Craftsman. This was a popular house in the 30's and Sears actually sold this style house at one time. We love our house very much and it lets us do projects on it without much hassle. To date we have completely renovated the kitchen, as well as the upstairs bathroom. We have refinished the floors in the bedrooms and the sunroom. We have replaced the windows in the sunroom and done some minor renovations in the mudroom. Our last project took us outside to the garage and patio area where we resided the garage, replaced doors and windows, and moved the brick patio. So, what is this new project you ask? We are taking down the load bearing wall that separates the living room and the dining room. The finished project will have built in bookcases with seating on top where the walls once stood. This will give the house a new look on the inside and open it right up. At this point we have removed all the drywall and lathe and are looking at wall studs. Here are some shots of the action. Sam is doing great!