Rain, Rain Go Away!

If anyone tells me we're still in a drought I'm going to happily show them pictures of my kitchen and living room. For what seems like 4 solid weeks we've had at least on good downpour in the middle week. While I'm glad all the rain comes in the middle of the week, I was not glad to get this text message from my husband, "Was there water all over the kitchen and den floor earlier?" Followed up with these pictures...

I know it's hard to see the water all over the floor here but trust me, it was there.

Of course had not seen the water before I left for work but to be honest I didn't walk through the back of the house either. Regardless, we have a serious water leak. We've know for some time that we had a water intrusion along the back wall of the house but we thought it was an isolated issue. We were wrong!

It appears the flashing around our upstairs bathroom was not installed correctly and thus we have a leak from the upstairs bathroom through the ceiling to our kitchenette. I gave my husband the ok to rip out the kitchenette ceiling, about 10 minutes later I get these pictures...

Much to our surprise and excitement we have amazing wood beam ceilings! Once we both got home from work we decided to take out the rest of the ceiling. Lucky for us the next day was trash pick up!

Here's what a night of kitchen demo in our house looks like...

Since the deconstructed is quite popular right now, we are looking into ways to create a seamless transition from the kitchen. While this definitely wasn't top on our project list, it just took over the first spot! Aw, the joys of home ownership!