A Hole in the Wall
I have been dying to cut a hole in this wall for YEARS and I finally got the chance. The front living room is pretty dark and doesn't get a lot of natural light. By opening up the wall it brightened it up considerably since the great room has several windows. It's not a supporting wall so that made this project a whole lot simpler. I started out by "framing" the opening with painters tape so i could visualize and be sure it was the placement I wanted. The next step was to cut the power in the wall and let the kids go to town with hammers. They had a blast beating holes all over it. This was our first glimpse of the new view from the great room to the office and front living room. The electrical still needed to be moved into the new header and the plugs needed to be moved into their new placements. This let so much more light into the rest of the house! We moved 1 plug to either side of the new opening and put the cables above the new header. Her...