Sunday, February 21, 2010

Kitchen Day 2 - Who built this thing?

Day 2 consisted of one common theme: "Poor Workmanship." Luckily, no one was referring to themselves in the present day. So, in 1968, when the house was poorly built, the builders at least left their mark, as you can see in this picture below with the 1960's Coke cup that was found in the wall. Uncle Dale spent hours trying to figure out how the electric was run and was extremely amazed at the poor workmanship. In fact, on Day 2 night, he laid awake in bed thinking about our electric. We thought about leaving a "dangling decoration" of light switches for the dining room and kitchen (see Picture 3), but Lindsey vetoed it. Dad was really excited about the designing of a plan to extend the soffit. To be able to get to that point, he spent the day cutting out 2x4's. As he cut out the 2x4's, and we yanked them out of what they were nailed into, we almost pulled down the dining room ceiling that wasn't really attached to anything. He was amazed at the...you guessed it...poor workmanship. -T

Thank you for the gift! They did this in Criminal Minds too! Although, lucky for us, it was a cup and not a dead body wrapped in plastic.

Dangler Switch Decoration? No?
"This is EXTREMELY poor workmanship!"
Definitely more open!

If we just kept it like this, we could have an indoor 25 yard hurdles event.
Seriously though...no dangler decoration?

1 comment:

  1. I'm excited to see how this turns out. I love a good before and after.

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