With our living area in tatters, we prepare cat food outside and cover the furniture in the room, in readiness for more demolition. The boys make quick work of the remaining joinery. Eighteen years hasn’t been kind to it and much of it is going to end up in landfill sadly. It comes apart quickly revealing
After the area is cleaned up they prepare new frames. We aren’t making revolutionary changes to this area like we are in the kitchen. Our living space will essentially remain the same, just refreshing the joinery and how our AV stuff connects. The 18 year old Bose system is removed, I sold it on Gumtree. The system will be replaced with a wireless Sonos system. Part of the extended system will remain, but be converted eventually to join the Sonos system.
The frame goes up in no time and the area is sheeted pretty quickly as well. They then move onto the framing for the kitchen area, this is where some macro changes are being made. We’ve moved our step into our sunken living space and reconfigured our dining room and kitchen, essentially a 180 degree flip of the two areas.
The framing takes the rest of the day.
We enjoy dinner on our bed and watch some TV, while our cats and dog wander around in a daze wondering what has happened to their place.