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This is the half bathroom we added on the main level.

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This is a view of the south dining room wall, looking into the kitchen. We decided to open the kitchen entrance to the same size as the adjacent opening and this pic shows our shiny new header.

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This is the north dining room wall. In this photo we have the new stairs to the second floor and the addition is still visible out the doorway on the left.

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This view is from the kitchen, looking into the dining room and foyer area.

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Here is a shot of the backing in the wall that we supplied for the flat screen. :)

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This is an example of how the door jambs in rentals get destroyed by bashing.

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This shows the washer/dryer hook-ups in the master closet and behind that is the shower and the linen closet.

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This is the master bath. We cannibalized the lavender bedroom to create this space. Look at the shiny tub and toilet... holes!

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This is the master shower. It is soon to be covered in fabulous tile and a river rock floor.

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This shot is of the framing in the upstairs, from the back of the house to the front.

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This is from the spare bedroom looking north toward the foyer. I was showing the framing in the foyer that enabled us to have some insulation, thanks to Ward.

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Here we are looking up into the foyer.

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The poor den ceiling looks like a city map with its wiring and plumbing.

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Hallway was restored to original using salvaged lumber from another wall.

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The view from the top of the stairs.

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Candace is on her way to discovering an archway that was created probably in the 1920's and inside the arch were the original tracks for some large pocket doors.

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The 1920's arch is revealed.

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Here is a shot of Tyler chipping plaster off of the brick in the living room.

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A very messy weekend removing the ceilings and attic insulation from the second level.

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Taking down the ceiling.

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The scary basement has a bad day.

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This truss header survived for 125 years, but had some severe bowing. We chose to replace this header with one that was more capable of handling the load.

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View of the lovely brick in the living room before it was covered with framing, insulation, and drywall.

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The stairs are tragically unable to be salvaged. They will be replaced in the opposite direction in order to accommodate stairs to the basement.

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They used tongue and groove flooring to support the stair treads.

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Removing plaster and wires and piping from the kitchen.

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Bits of wallpaper left under layers of paint in the kitchen.

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Knob and Tube insulators for the cloth wiring.

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This chimney was built sideways in the attic to make it so it did not go right through the peak of the roof. The chimney mortar was in such bad shape that we were able to remove the bricks, without tools, until we got to the main level.

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Evidence of where the cabinets were before we ripped them out. There used to be a very poorly supported kitchen in this area.

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View looking into the dining room and kitchen from the stairs.

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No wonder they had to lower the ceiling in the kitchen, they had to have somewhere to hide all of these pipes.

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Hand painted wallpaper remnants were discovered in the main bathroom.

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It would appear that we have some holes in the ceiling in the kitchen.

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The living room is all cleared out!

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This trap door was found in the living room. We are unable to tell if it actually enabled persons to enter the basement, or if it was just to hide things beneath the floor boards and above the basement ceiling.

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This is an outlet box that was found under the third layer of flooring. Looks safe (not).

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This photograph is in the den. Not exactly sure what happened to cause them to alter the floor, but it is no longer level. There were some incomplete floor joists below that we had to fix.

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This is how were were able to stabilize the floor in the main bathroom. We no longer have to be fearful of the cast iron tub falling into the kitchen.

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Main bathroom when we were replacing the sub-floor and supporting the joists at the south end.

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This is a shot of the foyer once the stairs have been removed, but before the main level floor joists were removed.

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Tyler and Ward are placing new floor joists to create a stairway to the basement.

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This is the foyer, taken from the basement to show the height of our foyer, which is cleverly disguised as an elevator shaft.

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In this fish-eye shot, the whole foyer (basement floor to second storey ceiling) is visible.

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Shot of the foyer while we had the north dining room wall removed for a few minutes.