A *Minor* Setback

 

We've had a small setback. *Someone* got a little demolition happy two weekends ago, when we were working on shingling on the backside of the house, over the kitchen. We got a lot done, but we weren't able to shingle everything that was cleared off. We did our best to cover with tarps, etc., as it was supposed to rain that night, but we unfortunately had a leak in the ceiling in the kitchen. Mark has meticulously removed the wet drywall and insulation, which has left a nice-sized hole in the kitchen ceiling.


This has been an unfortunate stumbling block (it doesn't help that Octavius tried to jump into the attic space from the refrigerator), but there are a couple of silver linings:

1. I hated that ceiling anyway (the texture is UGLY), so we might be able to at least get the kitchen to have a nice, smooth ceiling.
2. The lighting in the kitchen is a problem. It's pretty dim, so this give us a chance to work on the wiring and add some new (we're thinking about some pocket lighting).
3. We can get a pretty good view of the attic space over the kitchen, which right now is sealed off from the house and not usable. I've already been talking about a renovation idea to open up that space to make a walk-in closet for the upstairs master bedroom, and then enlarging the upstairs bathroom. Since we can see that space now, we can see that this idea is feasible, and we can even take measurements, etc., before we replace the ceiling so we can make my idea a reality. The only thing, is that project will have to wait until after the property tax assessor comes in January--we don't want the value of the house to increase before s/he comes! :)