movin and shakin

FINALLY started on some meaningful tear out yesterday. :) This means that the ceiling from the front room in now on the floor in a tangled mess of plaster and lathe, the whole house is filled with dust and the main floors are taken up by crow bars and scaffolding. It's beautiful. I love seeing the bones of a place and letting the thoughts of "what might be" tickle over me when the old limitations are stripped away to reveal the basic structure of a place. I've done this a number of times before but this is really the first time I've gotten to do it to a whole house at once. Heck now I'm thinking of taking a staircase out completely and moving things around in interesting ways to make huge amounts of uninterrupted space.

We'll see how it goes. More ceilings come out today.