The dirty work.

A 'before' shot of the door in my kitchen that led to a back porch. We have never in 12 years used this door. So we closed it in to make more wall space.

Starting to tear it apart.

Old plaster is a MESS.

Tearing off the woodwork pulled a chunk of plaster off too. I'd forgotten for a bit that there was brick in these walls! This spot is bigger than it started out 'cause I'm leaving this bric exposed. I hop to expose another spot or two on interior walls where the insulating issue won't matter.

My wonderful husband framing in to put drywall over the hole.