Tammy and I went and helped my mom today with the demolition of her kitchen. She’s been working on her new house for the last year and this is the start of probably the biggest project, but also the one with the most impact, a new kitchen. We went over to help her gut the room to the studs and got plenty dirty in the process.

Two people dismantling old wooden kitchen cabinets in a gutted room with stripped walls, a drill on the windowsill nearby. Two workers in white t-shirts strip a ceiling down to bare wood lath in a gutted room while a third person watches nearby. Smiling man in dusty white t-shirt and jeans standing in a doorway amid stripped walls exposed down to wood lath and studs Middle-aged man with dust and grime on his face grins close at the camera inside a home under renovation Four dusty workers in protective masks and gloves pose inside a gutted room stripped to the studs, one holding a broom. Kitchen gutted to bare wood studs and lath, pink fiberglass insulation exposed on left, old plaster chimney column with mold, plastic sheeting over doorway, step stool and pink bucket on patterned