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This is the result (nearly the end) of Friday's effort at removing the bricks from the second wall. I realized that Tad was working so quickly that if I didn't get a picture taken in a hurry, I'd miss out on that wall completely. He did actually remove the last two rows of bricks before he quit for the day. The last photo shows the pile of bricks that came from only the first bit of the first wall. We now have 2 large piles of bricks outside. We don't know what we'll do with them, maybe build an outdoor fire pit with some of them, but most of them will eventually be gone.

Here on the inside, we will put up some studs and then put foam insulation sheets in between them, sheetrock over them and paint the walls. We will also have to cover the bare spot on the floor, but we eventually want to tear out all the hideous orange, brown and black carpet

and install one solid piece of something pretty. Whatever gets into peoples' heads when they design, and then BUY (with real money, no less) ugly stuff? There's no accounting for taste, I guess. (Except for mine, which is, of course, exquisite.)