A mudroom appears….

Saturday, February 15

TJ was back on Saturday along with Angel and we had big plans for the mudroom area.
But first, the train table had to be dismantled.

Just a quick aside, this train table was created by Alex, Gordon and Will P 4 years ago in 2010 when Alex and Will were in 5th grade.  Once the idea was hatched they all went to work and they were together almost every day after school until it was completed.  
They did a brilliant job of laying track, painting roads and parking lines.  

The sad news is that in order to create the flow necessary for our new mudroom area the train table had to be dismantled.  It was a quick but nostalgic pack up of the trains, buildings and cars.

Once that was completed, demolition began on the wall that separated the basement from the garage. Here Alex, Gordon and Angel are taking down the mirrors that had been placed across the old door to the garage.

Below is TJ on the opposite side of that door:

 Below shows BEFORE the wall was demolished…

And AFTER …..lots of space!

 The above view and the following few pictures are taken from the same angle - looking from the basement toward the garage.

 Halsey began to frame the new wall between the garage and the mudroom.

 Alex finished the framing.

 Meanwhile, TJ and Gordon were upstairs on the second floor removing the studs from the old guest room to allow for a new wall arrangement.

The adventures continued in the basement when Halsey asked Angel to cut out part of the steel beam with a grinder to allow for a full sized door for the mudroom entry.

Here are the entangled wires mentioned in a previous post and the space where the stairs will be built.

At the end of this day, here is a great perspective with Julie's car pulled into the garage and the door to the new mudroom area is framed.