entropic_system

So this is going to be the only consistent open post on my journal. There are times when I unlock one for non-LJ friends or family to see.

Generally, I'm pretty open to adding new people, so if you want to add me, just comment here and tell me a little about yourself and I'll probably add you back.

My goal was to be as productive as possible this weekend and vurumai has given me a lot of incentive to get rolling on a few projects that, honestly, I've been paralyzed on. One of these was taking down the old wall between the kitchen and living room and putting in the breakfast bar.

Of course, I've known all the steps that would have to happen on this for a while, but a few of the steps were going to be a pain in the ass and I knew it. The wall is load-bearing, there were wires coming down through them, the furnace sits on the entry point for these wires, etc, etc.

I kind of made this weekend the weekend I was just going to shut up and get it done. Two weekends ago, I put up support structures to either side of the to-be demolished walls, enough to support the ceiling joists while I tore out the old wall.

That done, it was just a matter of deciding where to start. Those wires were problematic, because my plan was to originally just drop the new wires in the same fashion - right through the ceiling beam.

But the fact I have to cut a trench for the washer has given me a better option: I can run the wires through that same trench. That settled, it was just a matter of taking down the old and putting up the new.

Below the cut are the pictures I took along the way.
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