Demolition Weekend

Project Year: 2013
Project Cost: Less than $1,000 AUD
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There go the kitchen cabinets!
Demolition Weekend
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Can finally see out now those horrible louver windows are gone!
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I hated those horrible tiled benches!
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The kitchen in tatters.
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Under this horrible carpet we found lino, then piles of newspaper from 1954 and then floor boards.
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The floor boards under the carpet. Unfortunately they got ripped up to make room for the concrete slab of the extension.
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Ick that yellow wall paint. (It was there when we bought the house!)
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Part of the old kitchen. This whole section was ripped off and extended into our new open plan kitchen/dining.
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Note the plant that had been growing in the wall...
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Getting closer to bare bones in the old kitchen
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This used to be the toilet and laundry with the concrete floor built into the old verandah. That was certainly chilly in winter!
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The old bathroom. That is the full width of it. With a window in the shower!
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Back of the house in the process of being ripped off.
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This window was removed and the water tank was relocated.
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The horrible crayon drawing that had been on the wall of the 3rd bedroom.
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Skeleton walls
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Verandah going
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Bonfire at Mum and Dad's farm with what we didn't put in the woodshed.
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There goes the kitchen
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Geared up for asbestos removal.
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Bare bones
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Bit of termite damage, luckily not recent.
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The chimney was kept and is now in our new kitchen.
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Not much holding up that roof!
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We've ripped it down...now lets build it up again.
Demolition Weekend