ahh, homeownership

[moominmolly]

Sometimes you just have to drive a sword through the wall. Life is just like that.

David has been wanting to do this since college, when his roommate tried it and startled the people next door. So when zsquirrelboy and ectophylla came over to hang out and we decided to knock out the archway between the livingroom and downstairs kitchen, the first thing he did was break out his sword.



Only one of us had been a fencer.



Me, I wanted to go all berserker on that shit and do it overhand. I wasn't more successful, but I had a lot of fun.



The goal here was to get it through both bits of wall.



Once we'd succeeded at that a few times, we moved on. zsquirrelboy jumped at the chance to disassemble the wood frame in the archway with a POWER TOOL.



There was a little Pyramus and Thisbe moment.



Then we scored the edges of the archway and ripped out the innards. Woo!



It was a little confusing in spots, but basically short work.



And then when we were done, after the cleaning and lugging and sweeping and dusting off our pants, we sat around and stared at it a while. Where'd that wall go? I did not take a picture during this stage, but here's a later one from my phone:


Woo! No wall!

Comments

[cutieperson]

*nodnodnod*
i'm sorry if it sounded like i was saying it was a bad idea. the pics just make it hard to tell what it does to flow and i was curious!

fwiw, i loooove organizing kitchens if you ever have the time and spoons and want help :)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's okay! It's not the best picture, and so you can't see that it radically changes flow if only because you can now communicate between those rooms. And the passage is easier than it looks. But I really really really want to live in the world where I can also redo the kitchen...