Old Fashioned Glitter Glue

Not much to take pictures of yesterday..just some more window trim and more painted windows, but that's about it. Today on the other hand, was quite the adventure! Jim, our contractor, took out the kitchen/dining room wall! The plan is to mimic the entryway between our living room and dining room between the dining room and new kitchen.

The rest of the doors also came! 

The lovely "dust shield" erected to minimize dust from cutting out the wall,  as well as a dark view of the doorway we are going to mimic between the dining room and kitchen

Stage One. 

Tearing away plaster

Adding new 2x4s to give the structural dimensions and support for the new doorway

Action shot! The little thing poking out of the wall in the middle of the picture is a saw blade! 

Sliding double doors for the closet

Bathroom doors drying after a coat of paint

Stage Two: no more wall!  

Some crazy nails in an old 2x4

Check out all the layers! Plaster, lathe, a paper thin layer of wallpaper, some more wood and then new 2x4s

The Jackpot of the Day: Some old wallpaper! Still in the wall at this point

The piece of wallpaper Jim found after I pulled it out of the wall. Hand painted. Dennis, one of our painters, told me they used to put up the paper and paint it afterwards. The fancy part is a border that was up next to the ceiling and the plain part where my thumb is is just plain wallpaper. Also, this piece was facing into the dining room.

If you click on this photo to make it bigger, you can see all the awesome colors and details still on the wallpaper! Dennis thought it was probably original to the house, which in this room means it is probably 110+ years old! Pretty awesome as a history buff. And just awesome in general. Also, if you look at the picture blown up, you can see something that looks like glitter glue. Dennis thinks it is probably real gold flakes! So. Glitter glue with real gold. Naturally this makes this souvenir that much more awesome. It must be the reason that mom and I like to craft with glitter glue in this room. 

The finished product for the day

Hard to get good depth perception from this picture, but the orangey/brown rectangle in the middle of the picture is actually the basement floor! It's a little easier to see blown up. Leftovers from the chimney removal. Not sure how they will patch that one up...