To have lights in the kitchen has turned it into a room we actually enjoy being in...even with the unfinished walls and floor. It makes cooking and using knives a lot more safe, in general, since we can see enough to get our fingers out of the way.
Our biggest accomplishment, though, has been completing the carpentry work of putting up the chair rail, cornice molding, and door trim around the new opening. Adam managed to figure out the miter angles and splicing methods necessary to make believe the larger door opening is original. Just kidding - that would be wrong.
Adam at his makeshift table-saw/workbench, complete with running water.
Lights and molding!
Another light and more molding!
Chair rail (and yet another light in the nook above the door).
More chair rail!
The door trim moldings on the sides are up, but since the header in this new opening is sooooo much bigger than it was before, we had to splice together some pieces to make molding long enough.
And done! It makes it a finished piece. Yes, the top piece is painted, but it will all get painted over eventually anyway.
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