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The kitchen is gone. Tomorrow the chimney will go too. The prior owner had finished the small attached porch into a breakfast nook—with scrap wood from Montgomery Ward shipping crates and cardboard.
This is the ceiling and refrigerator space from the original kitchen space. Looks much better structurally.
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The half-bath on the main floor. We'll be moving this wall over about 6"; the bathroom is too small.
The basement bathroom space. The foundation is a mess; all this piping was run through channels dug into the foundation. We'll have to fix this before we close it back up.
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Tomorrow the chimney is removed and they do the final excavation for the basement door. The basement doors are probably being cut open on Monday.