Tearing down walls

I’ve given up on trying to keep this house clean. I’m at the brink and just don’t care anymore.  In fact,  I’ve decided to let the kids write on the walls.

Ok – not really.  But ever since we built the house two years ago, I’ve hated this half wall in between our formal living room and dining room.  I even asked the builders to omit the wall, but there were unable to break from the specific floor plan that we selected.  (Dumb – believe me I know!)   I was never able to expand my table all the way and it felt too cramped whenever there were more than just the 5 of us eating in there.   So finally, after all my complaining about it, we hired a friend to get rid of it for us.  He did a great job and I’m amazed at how much it has/yet hasn’t changed that area.  (Does that make sense?!?)

Here’s a before photo:

And after:

I can hardly wait to throw the biggest dinner party and just expand our table all the way open and have all this comfortable space.  Thanksgiving …. anyone want to join us?  We’ll have plenty of room!!