Demolition

 It is finally happening. 

We closed on this house on December 28th, 2003.

We spent last summer here from the early July to late October.

This year we arrived in early May, and will leave in early November.

Throughout all that time we have been working with our architects, our general contractor, our landscape architect, and various skilled craftsmen and trades. All to take a perfectly livable house (well, ALMOST perfectly) and turn it into something that reflects our needs and wants. Mostly wants.

There have been a lot of false starts, and a lot of revisions as we have seen plans and made changes. 

We have need surprised at costs, and worked diligently at "Value Engineering" to address those things we have to have, verses the ones we want to have.

Then, on Sunday morning, the first change happened.

Our cool old stove:

was gone.

Donated to what we hope is a good home.

And then with our demo permit in place, and our asbestos testing coming in negative, the first demolition started in earnest.

The "Ejecto" has been ejected.

The Pink Sink is sunk

My beloved Cherokee Red linoleum has been blocked and reported

The Expulso has been expulsed

This is hard for me to watch.

But I know that while all change is loss, and loss must be mourned, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

So here's to the old Bogk, and on to the new Bogk. Broken eggs and all.