Tear Out,porch plans and shopping

Brian Pearson and his partner Verda "Peanut" Wilson started the arduous  process of tearing out floors,cabinets and one tub in 1S. They had to first get up the carpeting and then there were two layers of tile underneath. It peeled pretty easy. The hardwood is in good shape on the second floor. Not the greatest on the first. We will have to do some repairs and add some hardwood on the first floor. Brian took a load to the city dump. He will have some more loads tomorrow. We are going to salvage the 1940 era cast iron sink basins. We will put them in storage for the time being.

Met up with my mason Fransico Ramos. My first thought was to have him repair the porch columns that were sagging and leaning. I decided to go for the gusto and take out this mis-matched porch with its yellow brick and put in a new porch with brick that matches the house brick. This will greatly enhance the curb appeal and make me feel better too. The price wasn't bad considering what it would cost to repair. We will save on the job by framing and laticing below the porch. Brian and crew will get the porch down Thursday and Fransico can start Friday morning.

I sat down with Rhonda Berry at the Dearborn home depot to get plans and pricing on cabinets and appliances. I did decide to go for black countertops,oak cabinets and chrome appliances. How cool will that be with beautiful hardwood floors underneath! Rhonda also made a good suggestion to move our door going from the living/kitchen space to the bedroom in 1s 5-6 inches so that we can make our kitchen work. We can do it. I will do some comparison pricing on this but generally you can't beat Home depot for cabinets. I'll check with Tony at ABC appliance in Dearborn to see what he can do about appliances.

I had the camera today but forgot to use it. Tomorrow we will get some photos up.