Kitchenistan is Unified!

A glorious day that will loom large in the history of Kitchenistan has passed.

I have written many times of the great wall of Kitchenistan, separating the free homeland we live in from the dark encroachment of what was once our happy land of foodprepskia. But the great wall was not the only barrier in Kitchenistan---another wall separated the evil construction empire into two semi-independent districts: the dilapidated West Kitchenistan (the kitchen) and East Kitchenistan (the addition). Today, there are signs of hope in the barren land of Kitchenistan as East and West have been united---the wall is gone...

No really, it is pretty cool. Just as the framing on patio has finally given us a real sense of the space that has been added in back, this is really the first time that we can see the full kitchen space (new and old together). Blogger is not letting me upload photos right now (which is OK cuz they all kinda suck), but the space looks pretty big now, though that will change as walls and cabinets and counter tops go up.

Exciting stuff!

UPDATE 12/2
As you can see, I got some photos posted (though they do, indeed, kinda suck). The one above was taken from the northeast corner, looking southwest (so from the far corner of the addition looking back into what used to be the kitchen and into the dining room---see the door and bits of the fish tanks just past the ladders?). The OSB and metal studs are addition wall. You can see where the stringers for an old set of stairs were on the old kitchen wall. And, you can see the new ceiling joists that had to go in because the doofus we bought the house from did a really crappy job when he altered the floor plan. On the right you can see some of the plumbing from the existing bathroom, which separates the kitchen from the dining room (along with the Great Wall of Kitchenistan, of course). The photo does not really convey the size of the room, but it is impressive.

The second photo looks east, just inside the great wall. You can see the the sun shelf/light cove ahead, though it has since been framed in. As noted above, the metal studs are in the addition. This gives a good sense of how little of the brick masonry remains from the original back wall---though it does not give a good sense of the room's new depth. The white on the depth is the bathroom wall that juts out. The green is the same ladder seen in the photo above.