Goodbye

Today, we said goodbye to our exterior siding (at least in the rear) and our front porch and stairs.  One by one, the old windows are also coming out and making way for new, much larger, ones.  We're donating the old windows to the Re-Store in Seattle (they say the value is about $75/window) - along with our original interior doors, our fireplace mantle and our cabinet pulls.  We'll have a tax donation of about $2,000 and hopefully someone will want our "junk."  It was easy to do.  The rep from Re-Store took a tour through the home and made a list of what they wanted, and then we "blue taped" the items so the workers could set them aside.  The Re-Store picked everything up and then they emailed me a tax receipt.  Easy, breezy.  

It took about two days to get rid of the porch and front steps but they are finally gone.  We'll be adding a new front porch to the home, along with a larger, interior entry area (with coat closet and bench).  The new entryway will actually pop out, towards the street, giving us more living space inside.  Our yard in the front is essentially useless so we aren't losing much of importance - maybe a large shrub and a little grass.*

Quinn is just so excited to be back at the job site!

* Weeds and moss.