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Day 2, March 4, 2003

Day two found the intrepid homeowners rolling up their sleeves and digging in! Karen started in the dining room removing wall paper, and the brothers Garbo headed upstairs. We'll have more photos to add to this page later, as the film gets developed - these were all we had on digital.

	Here's the dining room as it looked at first (less the chair rail)
	Karen spent about 5 hours removing the old chair rail and the first layer of wallpaper.
	One layer of wallpaper down, one to go! we hope to have this room painted by Monday.
	Before we started, here's looking into the Master Bedroom on the 2nd floor. The brick chimney that you will see in a minute was behind that built in shelving thingy to the right of the door.
	Also a pre-demolition shot, here's the office area. We plan on removing the doorway, and opening the whole area up.
	'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go!
	Brother Jim Garbo came to help, and we were able to rip out the old bathroom to stud wall. The office area is just on the other side of that wall. That standing stud is the old wall, the new one will be past the existing stud work on the left.
	Here's a close up of the old bathroom. The stud still showing is the old wall line, the new one will be another 16 inches or so farther out.
	Demoliton in process!.
	Demoliton in process!
	Demoliton in process!
	Upstairs demolition didn't stop there though. We realized that we can enlarge the bathroom more than we thought, and in doing so, we had to remove another doorway. As the walls came down we found that the fireplace was brick, and we are going to leave it exposed into the master bedroom. On the other side, we will be framing in a new closet to replace the one lost to the bathroom's new footprint (8 x 9). The doorway that led into the master bedroom is now history!
	Demoliton in process!
	The aftermath.
	This is looking back towards the staircase. That wall in front of us is the back of the staircase, which we will be removing. We intend to remove that wall, and the long one on the left; replacing them with a 36" built in bookcase and a banister, respectfully. The opening on the right is the office area, and we may or may not pull down that wall along the staircase as well.

On to the next day....