Day Two of Demolition

After just a couple of days of demolition, the building already looks different. With most of the walls gone, it has a much more spacious feeling.

This is the same view as the first picture of my last post.

Jill and I helped the guys out by doing some sledgehammering. It turns out that the wall we hammered was actually supposed to stay, so it's a good thing we didn't get very far.


We discovered that above the ugly old ceiling is a nice vaulted wood ceiling...and absolutely no insulation. It reminds Jill and me of our summer cabin, which would be nice if we only had to work in this building in the summer. We're not sure what we're going to do about the ceiling yet.



The contractors also uncovered some cool old brick walls around the perimeter of the building. Of course, there's no insulation here either--on the other side of these bricks is the great outdoors. However, we love how the brick looks, so that may become our design focal point for the café.