Reduce, Reuse, Recycle....Voila!...new room

REDUCE
This past May we found a new home for our dog Sammy (Drew is allergic to dogs). This reduced the number of animals in our home.  Sammy is very happy in her new home with the Lassiters.

REUSE (Repurpose)
This allowed us to reclaim the room that had been designated as "Sammy's room" off the side of our house next to the kitchen.  Thus began a major renovation that lasted from May until after Thanksgiving.  Luckily this room could be closed off from the rest of the house for the majority of the project. 

Here are the pictures of Drew's handy work...

This is a view of the gutted room looking toward the door connecting to the kitchen.  Thank you "guys night" for pulling out all the paneling and insulation.

This is a view of the gutted room standing in the doorway to the kitchen.

They are standing in the opening created by taking out a window just like the one behind them.  

We hope to reuse the windows in a tree house some day.

Clearly all the boys liked the demolition aspect to this project.

Drew is standing where the door used to be.  He is framing in the opening for a window.

Here is the door that was put in the hole created by removing a window.  (See previous pictures)

Here is a picture of the room with drywall in place, but not taped or mudded.

This is a picture of the tree that almost ruined our renovation.  

This limb came down in the crazy snow storm at the end of October.

See the nice new siding that could have been ruined.  Thank you, God, for protecting our project.  :)

This picture was taken the weekend before Thanksgiving when Drew and I put in the floor while our boys watched TV or played outside.

And here it is!  We finished it the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Didn't Drew do an amazing job?  

Now we have a place to eat other than the middle of our kitchen.

RECYCLE

And finally this is a picture of the aluminum siding that was pulled off the house and will eventually be recycled.  The picture is taken from the sliding glass doors at the back of the room (see picture above).  We hope to build a deck in this space at some point in the future (maybe by the time the boys go to college).