Before + Progress Pictures: The Historic House By The Water: Living Area, Part 4

Before + Progress is an ongoing series keeping you up to date on whatever project is currently occupying our time. There is still lots to be done at this point to make the Progress photos actually qualify for the coveted After stage.

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Ta-daa!

Okay, the Ta-Daa was a little uncalled for.

I admit that.

I know it's not much yet. We're still plugging away...

We've started patching those vents.

We tore out the arch above the entrance to The Dining Room.

And the fireplace makeover has begun (to the deafening cheers from all of you seated in front of your computers).

Plus, we framed out that scary bifold door to The Gun Room, I mean Mechanical Room. And don't forget that we're blasting through The Dining Room wall to make way for the new door. (Doesn't blasting make it sound so dramatic? Think Mission Impossible or 007. And, yes, I do my own stunts. As if you hadn't figured that out yet.)

Door! I almost forgot to tell you about the new door!

Here's what I'm most excited about today...

Our contractors were able to score us this 1920s interior door to match our other existing doors throughout the house. It will be tucked into the left side (if you enter through the arch) of The Dining Room. The bottom panel is being replaced with a filtered vent. They pulled this out of a pad that they're demolishing in another part of town and were nice enough to give it to us for free! Fuh-REE!

Freeeeee!

Isn't that swell?!

Cheap Kelly + Free Door = Balki's Happy Dance

(Two points if you know who Balki is. Two more points if you know how to dance in a turtleneck. Or breathe in a turtleneck, even.)

I should have more progress for you in the next couple of days. Andrew's parents are visiting next week so we've offered up our firstborn in exchange for the contractors working day and night until his folks arrive. They said that with our genes they'll pass, but they did take us up on a Starbuck's run.

So we're good, I think.

See Part 3 here.
See Part 2 here.
See Part 1 here.