demo begins

We are doing the 'harvesting' this week, carefully dismantling all the elements in the house we hope to re-use. It is exciting to see the rooms start to become more anonymous. As we took the last furniture and things out of the house, we both started to feel a little sad for the house and its impending transformation from its original state. The harvesting of materials for re-use feels like breaking us in gently.

Interesting to see that framed-in slatted door. It appears in drawings
of Gutnayer's and I wondered where it had been.

 

Kitchen, minus all the cabinets and appliances.
We are taking the walls away...I can't wait to see through this room!

Kitchen from the dining room. Note the beam that lands...where?

The kitchen has a dropped roof, and I think what you see here
above the bit of insulation are the roof planks.
They run the opposite direction from the interior ceiling boards.
Those tongue-in-groove members are about 21/2-3" thick.

 
The lights get a rest after 52 years!
We will re-use all these in the LR and bedroom.

Here are the cabs and the flooring in their temporary home in the garage.
We will reuse some of the cabinets for storage in the basement and utility room.



This is the tongue and groove paneling that lined the kitchen volume.

The likely plan for this is to create a wood surround for the kitchen:

Ooh! Snuck in a design drawing. See the beam coming in from the upper right? That is that same beam from the picture above (the one that lands...where? Now it will land on the steel column). We are getting pretty close on the design, with some really wonderful details I can't wait to share. Friends will note in this view the, ahem, similarity in layout to our old house. The house was essentially lined up in the same kind of configuration as our Seattle house. Take out a couple walls, and voila! As our architect tactfully said, if it worked for you guys before... .