The French Door Project Begins...

Last weekend, the "Front Living Room Floor / French Door from the front living room to the Kitchen" project began.  Friday night, Terry rented a floor sander and took off the top layer of poly and stain on the floorboards.  This was my sneak-in shot while he was in action, but as you can see, the dust was awful.

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The next half of the project consisted of knocking out a hole in the wall to put in a french door.  We decided on this plan mainly because with the layout of the house, the front room was very excluded and inaccessible to the main living spaces. 

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The first throws in the wall  :-)  That's about the only part that I did because then Terry broke out the drywall saw which made it move much faster.   

Terry did the rest....

The next steps to finish up are putting a new stain on the front living room floor, re-running the electrical lines (You can barely see it in the picture, but the electrical wire from the outlet runs straight across about a 1/4 of the way up), installing the french door by building a new header and support beams since this is a load bearing wall, and that's about all.  No Big Deal :-)

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