EXTREME KITCHEN RENOVATION EP2 | Demo, Cathedral Ceiling & Doubling The Size

with our new kitchen design and floor

plan in place we are ready to demo the

old kitchen have a structural engineer

out to devise a plan to make two small

spaces into one big one and figure out

how to give us the highest ceilings

possible all while crossing our fingers

that we don't run into any hiccups that

will delay

Renovations

needed climing back night today we're

prepping for demo day so we had to get

everything out of the kitchen so we've

gotten everything out of the cabinets we

kind of made ourselves a Mak shift

little kitchenet situation in our living

room so that we can actually have access

to some stuff over the next 3 months

while we renovate the kitchen all of the

pantry food items all our spices

everything that we'll go back in the

kitchen is now in our living room and

that's just the way that we're going to

be living for a little while so now

we're to a point where I need to remove

everything that we want to salvage and

save one thing is all of the hardware

this is all vintage Hardware that I

found when we kind of made over the

kitchen that I'd love to repurpose into

the new design I just have to make sure

that we have enough and kind of pair

them with some other Hardware I also

want to save all of my little cafe

curtains that I made and we be reusing

in this space what I'm also going to do

is put signs on the things that we're

saving what I realized doing renovations

at the cottage and working with

contractors is that you cannot overc

communicate there's so many people that

come in and out that things can get

missed and the last thing I want is for

like our refrigerator we're saving we're

putting in the garage is for it to get

like dumped or something like I just

want to make in our dishwasher like the

things that we're saving like these

lights and stuff I just want to put

signs on them I'm going to overc

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communicate

people knew her by her

will to make it whatever she put in mind

to late night hours up the

hill serving coffee

Str good morning and welcome to demo

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day

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yeah

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the same slope this is basically the

bottom of the roof ra yes we can go with

the same

slope and put the in right there yeah I

mean if we can go with the same slope

and it gives us the most

height which will make it higher this

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one

17 we can do five five or 6 65 in the

middle so we go higher I like 665 in the

middle yeah 5 six

I mean we have some some room yeah we

not making a SS

watch we're not making a I I do make a

watch this is going to be the swis watch

of

kitchen

10 this store is going to stay here

right yes only opening mhm where do you

want to put the this door French is it

French or

SPID I need 4T minimum if you say 3 ft I

we can do one big one with multiple

doors this is one piece or you're going

to one

piece oh no no this going to be like

built in in the window that's going to

be the whole preh hang so 7 ft open

you're going to close this

right so that'll be a flat wall to that

kind of

corner that basically gives you the

window span like so we then we will play

with the 7 Fe we have one door two door

whatever the AC we're going to just as

is stick it in the new ceilings push it

and get the bigger

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Grill

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okay so this is a wrap on day one of

demo so this is the first time that

Romeo and I are going to see it without

the wall we don't know we don't know how

far they were able to get today but they

worked all day I think we're going to be

able to see like how big the room is

actually going going to feel you don't

know how bad I wanted to pick up a

crowbar and like tear something up but

you know like priorities the baby but oh

I wanted I wanted to do it so bad I was

so in I was so excited it feels so much

wider obviously we they haven't gone up

in this side yet they were able to get

all of the Cabinetry all of the

countertops out today they were able to

expose the center wall so that I can see

what's happening so so that they can

actually remove it and they were able to

go up in the ceiling on the dining room

side not even 24 hours ago we were in

this kitchen making brownies and quesas

we were we were literally cooking less

than 24 hours ago in this kitchen and

now it's like not here it's like not

here I mean we were literally cleaning

it out yesterday going to follow this

the roof line for 6 fet and then it's

going to be 5T of flat in the center and

then 6t down on the other side so we're

going to be able to gain 2 to 2 and 1/2

ft in the center of the room which is

going to make the whole Space feel so

much taller because now we've made it a

lot wider because we've doubled the size

by making two rooms one room although I

did want to get my hand dirty and

actually demo some stuff they did about

two weeks worth of work for me and you

in one day is it really muddy down there

yeah it's been flooded which is not good

for the foundation yeah the good thing

is this uh

clay the clay doesn't let the water go

inside avoid the water going

under all the space is

fled our living room flooded and it's

been a fear an ongoing fear of trying to

maintain it because I just don't think

that that trough where it jumps down

here and dips down makes sense way that

this is planned it was just just an old

school way of of thinking that's not how

they would do it now they would never

create this hole because the brick drops

down right here and makes a hole next to

our back doors not only did our living

room flood but also it's creating extra

moisture and water pouring underneath

our house and could potentially in the

long run really really hurt our

foundation So the plan is to eliminate

the hole and the containment of water in

this area by removing the brick so that

water that does pour over from the pool

and rain in general can simply pour down

into a proper drainage path instead of

pouring into our house and collecting

under our house ruining the foundation

progress update on day three of demo

we've got the old porch roof gone demoed

out got that junk out of the way for us

to do the cathedral ceiling which is so

good we've got this window demoed out

and remove removed which is awesome

because that's going to be a solid wall

behind our oven they've got some

supportive pieces in here just for now

while they're going to work on the

framing for the cathedral so interesting

that this used to be a door used to be

an entryway that would have gone into

the living room the front living room

the formal living room and something

here I think something there I'm not

sure kind of looks like another door but

it's very interesting just getting

everything cleaned out and then this

electrical sub panel will go away and

we'll have our single panel cuz we don't

really have a place for a sub panel we

don't have a lot of closets downstairs

so so

exciting so this is day four of working

on demo and new structure of the ceiling

so they have to put extra support for

obviously load and size seismic you know

we have earthquakes here so they need um

some sheer walls they're doing a lot of

out work and a lot of reframing on some

old damage of 2x4s we're basically

taking this out these two windows are

becoming big doors you know so like like

skinny doors four of them side by side

all this damage that we had previously

from old termite damage is going to be

pulled out and and fixed a nice new two

code header above these doors you really

get to feel how tall it's actually going

to be in here it's not going to go all

the way to the peak obviously cuz we

chose not to do a point and do a a full

Vault but we're going to have it chopped

a little bit so that we can run AC and

things and it matches the rest of the

house cuz we also have that in the in

the house and then they put mesh down so

this is where the wall oh they removed

the whole wall they removed the whole

wall I didn't realize they were saw in

here everything so they've got two

supportive Things They removed the whole

Center wall that was behind our oven

this is where that the Cabinetry was so

there wasn't any brick the brick floor

was added after they had already had

that so we need to patch the brick floor

just in the center of the space and over

by the by the sink area this was an old

entryway to the living room they put

more support here cuz it was not

supported well at all big post here for

our vaated Cathedral for our ceiling

this is going to be big support you can

see they also put another one here this

is just 4 days in I know 4 days from

like okay let's let's break wall this

would have taken us probably like 2

months you can tell like the newer

pieces they're just adding that

structural support that it really

needs it's officially day five of demo

and they are going to be working on

making the hole in space for our new

French doors and closing up the old

one

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so they removed some of the support

things today yes Amir came he want me to

replace this he want me to replace this

he want me to what's going happen is

this I want the beam here right and here

to get the proportion right right but

this is uh 9 or 10 ft and this is six 6

ft so regardless you don't care that all

kicks out over there I see why so I

don't care about that but this is your

Center yeah of the room right of the

angles I mean it makes sense and this is

at the center of this room right correct

it's just because it kicks out over air

yeah okay sense yeah no sense so what we

did we're going to remove that post here

and move it over here I see so it's

going to happen it's going to be not

this side it's going to be on this side

so to reframe is the whole door get the

header beam engineer beam in a

post that's so

annoying Safety First yeah it is what it

is and he want me to reframe this whole

open oh yeah they got rid of the old

header here

today is officially beam day they are

going to be installing these

280 lb bra beams in the ceiling for not

only structural support but also the

look that I wanted and the exposed beam

look that matches the rest of our

house

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what I wanted to add to the space like

the real beams and the structural

changes that needed to happen

specifically in this area my arms could

never yesterday they lifted 2 180 lb

beams up four guys and ladders and

Leverage and it was fascinating to watch

because I'm learning so much through

this process they obviously have years

and years and years and years of

experience on site doing construction

like this I love my contractor because

he's like telling me and and educating

me as I go because I love to know stuff

like this he's just they literally

fantastic you live in Los Angeles area

and you need a builder I got you Mega

Builders I will always leave their

information in any of the description

boxes of these videos because they are

excellent so they were able to do lots

of structural work today this area is so

unusual part Original Part edition part

Edition Edition the roof line and

everything is all different it ended up

being fine but a lot of things needed to

be replaced just to make sure that it's

done exceptionally well all of this

structural work is amazing this is now

going to be the center of the room and

it's going to be the flat part of the

cathedral ceiling look how small I look

in this space look how much taller we've

gotten the ceiling it was so worth it I

knew it was going to be worth it truly I

was like I just I I Feel It In My Bones

I just I have to Vault this ceiling it's

going to make a major impact on the

space and it totally totally does so we

were able to get to 10 and 1/2 ft in the

center of the room and on the sides they

drop down to 8 ft so you can kind of

imagine the kind of pitch that it's

going up to so right now I'm kind of

standing at the oven like this is where

the oven is going to be right in the

center of this flat part of the ceiling

framing work they still need to do is

frame up this hole where our French

doors used to be and then add the proper

header here for our new French doors

going out to the pool and just bring

this whole like frame in this whole

section so that we have the frame in for

the doors to be custom another

structural addition that they're making

to this space is actually adding sheer

walls which is the addition of plywood

behind the she rock it makes the walls

really strong and it helps with like

seismic structural issues which never

even knew that before but that's one of

the requirements that the engineer

really wanted in order to further

support these walls and just make sure

that it's really really really

structurally sound and it's going to

last forever and ever and ever I also

think think that this right here there's

an old gas line here a pipe sticking up

and there's a circular old circular

space in the roof the old like shingle

roof there either was an oven here or a

fireplace maybe a gas fireplace because

this used to be like kind of like a

patio very interesting I just love old

houses for all their little quirky

things that happen so things being off

and and unusual shaped is something that

I actually like because it was original

to the house or somewhat original like

for instance the house kicks out right

here so part of the slope on one side is

a lot longer than the other and that's

just part of its charm we're going with

it 40 Skylight 40 40 away okay 40 away

from the thing okay so we're keeping the

distance 27 is from here yeah we have

the other 15 a good 15 in but

here we are

27 you're right here I mean so the

Skylight is going to start right where

the cabinet stops the bottom ones oh the

bottom ones yeah cuz the top ones will

only be 12 or 14 somewhere in there cor

right but it's all ratio so here you

have a drywall still so the 27 is right

here I don't mind it at all it is what

it is yeah three in from the beam yeah

and then we do the same thing the other

side yeah this is okay we going do the

same thing no I like it because I like

that it's not in the doorway because it

brings light in where there's a wall all

right I think Jo this is it we nail it

yeah I knew you nailed it already I

watched you do

it like that's a good this looks so good

by the way I saw this last night I was

like oh there's a more like nothing ever

happen this is already fixed this is

from yesterday yeah from yesterday all

of that and all of that yeah it looks so

good oh and that's the the Skylight yeah

it's beautiful the V it's flat it's

clear it's beautiful yeah you can

operate you can open it I mean nothing

yeah so it's just stationary I mean if

it's bothering too much light it's a

kitchen though so you can never give me

enough

light

today is the final day of demo and

structural changes to our kitchen we've

made so much progress in the last two

weeks of just them working on all of

this today they're going to be doing the

skylights which is super exciting to see

some new and natural light come into

this space also just going to be

finishing up some cutting that they need

for the sheer walls I don't think

they're going to be applying them today

they're going to wait for inspections

and things like that to be you know kind

of happen um but they're going to get

all of those kind of cut and prepped to

go up before they drywall the amount of

structural support that we actually did

have to add in this space was way more

than we bargained for I've never seen so

much wood but it's all necessary when

you live in a place that can get shook

up a little bit there's a lot more

things that you have to do in order to

meet code and to just protect us our

family and the structure from any kind

of seismic impact or changes and shifts

over time this kitchen will now outlive

me so I'm very excited about that so

this is the time of day that we do not

get any direct sunlight into the space

the sun is already passed the trees in

the back it has been dark in here while

they have been doing structural changes

with these two skylights it makes such a

big difference we were only able to do a

2 by two Skylight instead of doing a 2x4

foot Skylight like I wanted so it would

have been more rectangular we had to go

with what the structure should could

support and we just didn't have enough

space over here on this side of the room

to do a larger Skylight so I was a

little worried I was like oh is it going

to give me the light that I want is it

going to be able to you know give me

that sunlight is it going to be worth it

it was totally worth it I love the look

at the light that's coming in on me

right now there's obviously no

electricity in here sunlight that's

coming in at like 6:00 p.m. in the

afternoon as you can see skylights can

make such a big difference in space I

mean you see all the light that's coming

in on me that's really soft we wouldn't

have that if it was just a solid roof so

definitely worth the investment in the

Skylight themselves and just the work

and the labor that it took to actually

frame these out today I'm big on

Lighting in a home and having the right

amount of light but also playing with

the light that you can get naturally you

know and this is awesome I love they

were also able to finish up patching the

flooring today it's like it never

happened they were able to sourc the

same brick that was in our kitchen which

I don't think was crazy hard to find um

but they were able to find it and get it

here within like the same day they were

able to perfect it like the level of the

floor add all the things that they

needed underneath and really there were

a couple of spots that needed to be

repaired because this brick is kind of a

newer flooring we did see some older

remnants of flooring underneath it looks

fantastic I'm so excited this room is so

big it's crazy we are getting to the

level and style of kitchen that this

house deserves that I feel like I want

and deserve and it's it's really

starting to take shape and come to life

it feels so good being able to walk in

here without the center wall really

getting to experience the space without

the low ceilings and just what it could

become as a complete room with a dining

room and a kitchen rather than two

separate spaces so we are definitely

moving in the right direction so I hope

you guys enjoyed episode two of the

kitchen renovation if you did Miss

episode one where I talked about my

design ideas the overall direction and

the style that we are taking this

kitchen I will leave it linked for you

I'll also create a whole playlist for

you so you can follow along as we

transform the space into the most

amazing kitchen I hope now that we are

done with the demo and structural phase

we'll start on Electrical Plumbing all

of that stuff will start to be perfected

and put into place and we can start

shopping for fun things like stone for

our countertops working on the Cabinetry

with the cabinet guy picking cabinet

profiles starting to install everything

so you really get to see the the design

kind of come together and eventually

decorate so don't forget to subscribe

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will see you guys in the next episode

coming up on episode three of renovating

our kitchen hi are you low to the ground

I want as many windows as possible many

lights power only it's exterior it'll be

like the under St it's like are they too

small we have two of them and the last

night I kind of had a panic attack

because each of these doors would be 21

in by 5T

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