the hole in the wall gang

At least that is what mom said she was going to call us, given how many holes we like to put in walls. Speaking of which, see below for pictures of our latest endeavor. We figured we ought to get the messy part of cutting the wall apart done before we have a floors replaced. And, we really wanted to open up our kitchen to the living area for entertaining etc. So here are some before and afters.

First set of three pictures below show the progression of the wall from the perspective of the living room.



We will be adding a bar to this side, and then some built-in shelves/cabinet to the left of the hole and bar area.

This set of 4 pictures shows the progression of our hole in the wall from the perspective inside the kitchen. We tore out those cabinets completely as you will see below.
This is the space that was above the stove before.
And here we are, as far as we are going to get for a few weeks. The plan is to finish out the living room side so it is a bar, with our new barstools.

I think it looks great. And while it means that right now we have less storage, once we get the built-ins on the other side, we'll be fine on storage.