Extreme Home Makeover Daron Edition...And so it begins

After months of waiting, we are finally beginning to remodel our house.  It is hard to believe that we hatched this idea a year ago and are just beginning to move forward with our plans.  We've met with our contractor numerous times since May discussing the possibilities and budget.  He gave us the go ahead two weeks ago to start demolition.  Hopefully he'll start in a couple more weeks.

Thursday night we started the demolition process...Mom came out to help and we pulled the majority of the kitchen cabinets off the wall.

Today was a not great weather day...so Dad decided to take down the cedars that needed to come down in front of the house.  I'd never seen the front prior to today...I really liked it.

This is what the house looked like on Thursday night when we were there...

This was the view when I got out there this evening...Dad, Mom and Jut worked all afternoon but got it all taken out.

Part of me would love to keep the three stone pillars in place...I love the look from the outside...However, I'm not in love with them on the inside of the house...so they'll probably go...but I love the character that they give the outside.

So, our next goal is to take out the trim...without damaging it...that will be next week's project.