#Clinefamremodel2015

Jordan finished his first year of graduate school on April 22nd.  They came to our house for a sleepover on their way to California to stay with Jamie's family before heading to Detroit.  Jordan is doing an internship with GM in Detroit for the summer.

Jordan spent a week in California, then headed back here before the long drive to Detroit.  He left Jamie and Logan to spend another week with her family before they fly to Detroit to meet him.  We have been planning to put an addition on the back of our house, a family room so we could have more room for big family dinners.  Mike had been working on plans and submitted them to Taylorsville City.  They had all kinds of changes they needed him to make and all these things we had to do to get our original house up to code.  It was a HUGE PAIN.  Then, Mike came up with the idea of just knocking out the wall between the living room and kitchen and making it all one big room.  It sounded BRILLAINT to me, so when Jordan arrived back here, he began the destruction.  Here he is knocking down our diagonal wall.  That gave us lots more room!

Then he pulled out the Travertine entry floor.

On Saturday, Matt and Josh came over and Matt framed in a new closet door.

Josh and Mike began patching up the ceiling where the diagonal wall used to be. 

Josh and Mike also took the sheetrock off the wall between the kitchen and living room.  We have to find someone to put a beam in the ceiling before we take down the 2x4's, so the ceiling doesn't fall in.

I am LOVING the openness and that I can see out my front window from the kitchen. 

 It's a lot of work and a lot of dust, but I think we are going to LOVE it!!!