Normandy Park Restoration

Initial framing of the kitchen is done.

No more kitchen cabinets Needed to remove them before I could start framing the new walls.  There are still some remnants of the previous wall up against the ceiling, I'll take those down later this week or this weekend.  Now I have to put planking back in the floor, then I can start framing.

Finally got my stairs back.  This time the framing is in final form, but with 2x12's as steps. Now has 3 stringers, and a landing box for the landing, which acts as the final step.  Not sure what I'll end up using for the treads, considering hardwood or slate, but that may depend on what I use for flooring in the kitchen.  Need to add a flew planks to finish it.  I might go ahead and put some tread faces on so the dog can get used to using the stairs, which may or may not be a good idea.

Doesn't look like much difference, but there is a whole lot of work that went into this.  All of the support framing for the stairway opening is now done.  The temporary supports in the basement are now removed and it's supporting itself in it's final form.  Had to do a lot of demolition in order to get this job right.  I actually screwed it up the first time, ended up with the main support beam not perfectly straight, so I had to do it over.  As you can see, almost all of the kitchen wall is gone now, with only temporary storage there for now.  I have a temporary low wall to keep the dog (and me) from falling into the basement.

Finally don't have to duck when going down into the basement for the first time in a couple of months: Doesn't look like much, but got the 2 remaining joists installed, and the support framing installed so that I could cut the final old joists.  Going to take a while to get the span framed properly, hopefully I'll have that done this weekend. Also installed the first set of 4 recessed can lights, which is officially the first new wiring installed in the house.

Doesn't look like much, but a couple of hours of work and now I have this: They had built up about 8 2x10's as a cross support all nailed together.  Getting that out took a while.  I've also removed the framing and remaining drywall from the back wall.  Later this week I'll work on getting the stairway framing done.  If all goes well I hope to finish that sometime next weekend.

Got the main floor joist installed.  It's being put in to double up one existing joist, so that I can hang my new support beams from it.  Here you can see it going in: Here it is installed.  The prep work, removing the window, pulling the wires, and some other minor items took just about all day.  Here it is installed: Putting the beam in itself was pretty quick.  Probably only took 30 minutes.  The main work will be doing the other framing and replacing the window I removed.  I put some temporary wood over the window as you can see from the outside: