Demo has begun

We have a team (really two) coming to remodel the house next door at the end of March, and this week the guys started demo of the inside of the house. I have a few before and after photos.

The back of the old Mennonite house had a kitchen and a barn room.



















That barn room will get a lot of changes, however, we plan to keep the two front rooms as close as possible to original and keep as much of the wood floors as possible. It will be the private area and bedroom for the group home parents with an ensuite bathroom built next to the general house bathroom. Garry also plans to make two student bedrooms and a kitchen and a living/dining area.

The old heating, fireplace/furnace system was all knocked out along with the walls, so some of the walls of two front rooms we are keeping will need repairs/replacement where the chimney system was.

They also knocked down some interior walls where the big main room and bathrooms will be. Most other walls were built with mud bricks which you can see in some of the outdoor photos.

Garry plans to reuse the old doors so they saved the ones they took down with the frames.

On Saturday we had the whole crew in for soup at lunchtime.