Day One-seventy-seven: and the walls came tumbling down

Before we get to the destruction, let's start with some progress on a new project. The house had cheap, old, warped doors on all the rooms upstairs that we have replaced with nice, unfinished pine doors from Home Depot. Note the word "unfinished", which implies something must be done to finish them. A first attempt to use a clear varnish from an eco-friendly company was a disaster. The house still smells like the varnish even though it's been months since we tried it. So we returned to a company that's been a standby for years. The door on the left has a first coat, the other is still unfinished.

Meanwhile down in the basement, we used these tools:

to turn this...

into this...

and this...

Our new open-look basement is taking shape.