The Wall

We are constantly improving our 1970's era house. I'm starting to think that we've done all of the easy projects. Apparently we now have to remove walls to update things, so that's what we did. Our house is fairly open but we thought removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room would open things up and give us some extra counter space. Here is a series of pics to document the project.

 The kitchen side of the wall pre-demolition.

 I got some help from my friend Joey because the wall is load bearing and I didn't want to mess up the support.

 The support beam is in and the arch is cut and installed.

 Now it is drywall time. I hate drywall!

 So much fun!

 Starting the shelving unit that will fit under the counter on the kitchen side.

 Starting the bricks. They are real bricks that have been cut to about 1/2" thick.

 Shelving unit is finished and installed.

 Bricks are finished.

Counter top has been fabricated and installed. All done!

Done!!

My present for finishing the project. Yum!

Tu ne cede malis

Ben and I got to meet in Phoenix last Saturday for a Mises Circle. Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul were among the speakers. It was quite good and the experience of being surrounded by other liberty minded folks was fun and odd. It was good to see Dr. Paul as he will likely stop traveling to do these types of things soon due to his age. He looked great though.

It was great to see Ben too. I do miss the days of all of us (you know who you are) living in the same place.

For Liberty!