Remodel continues!

We were able to get ahold of a contractor that lives close by us to come and tell us what we were going to need to do about putting in a beam.  He walked into our house and asked us who told us that the wall was a load bearing wall.  He was pretty sure that it wasn't.  He went up into our attic and found out that he was right.  It WASN'T a load bearing wall and we could just tear it down!

Before we went to bed that night, Mike had it down!

Wooo Hooo!

Then he closed in the doorway to my kitchen, so this if the view from my front door.

Next he patched up the hole in the ceiling from the wall.

He let me do a little sanding after it was all taped and mudded.

Josh taped and mudded the ceiling for us.

He also took the rock off our fireplace.

It was quite the job, but he had it done in no time.

Mike and dad were there to make sure he did it right!

All ready for a new look.

Jamie told us about Kirk Olsen, ( a friend of his and Josh's) who grew up in our ward, and has a business of making fireplace mantles.  We went to his showroom and fell in love with this one.  The guys from Comfort Solutions are coming to put the gas fireplace in on Wed. and Kirk will come and measure to make the new mantle after the fireplace is in.  Here is the finished fireplace and wood floor.  It is gorgeous!