Friday Fun – Up Close and Personal Demo Style!

This week started off with a bang as one of our projects broke ground.

The Original House
(The “before” picture)

Although it was raining here in Seattle on Monday, turns out rain is the perfect forecast for demolition (with all the dust and what not from the demo.)

Excavation Bucket’s ready for business!
Safety First!

The process of designing your dream home can take awhile, but when you finally get to SEE some physical progress it get’s exciting, and what an exciting day it was.
The Excitement started the night before apparently as the whole bunch came to kick off- the demo by throwing rocks through the windows of the existing home.  The house was empty of course, and well, who HASN’T dreamed of throwing rocks through a perfectly good window? I know I have!

From the deck looking back at the house.
You can see the rocks from the night before still on the floor. Look at the amazing view of Lake Washington. Simply stunning.
A bit of graffiti in the kitchen: their two boys traced on the wall about to be demo’d.

From the project manager with contractor Bender Chaffey, to OUR project Manager Eric Drivdahl, and of our course our client’s, there were smiles and laughter all around.

Our AMAZING cheerful client ready to get started.

Our client’s have such a wonderful close knit family that everyone came to celebrate this huge step in bringing their dream home to life.

The oldest of their two son’s checking out the Excavator.
(His boots are my fav)

Once everyone had a chance to fully check out all the fun equipment, eat some donuts and get some coffee that our client brought for everyone (again, AMAZING!) it was time to get started.

Let the destruction begin!
(Just look at that grin on his face)
From the other side of the Lake. You can see the claw tearing into the top right.

With all the time and work it takes to design and build a home, it’s amazing how quickly they come down. Here is some video of our client “Bringing Down The House”.

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When all the fun was over, and it was time to turn it over to the professionals to do their job a bottle of champagne was brought out to celebrate.

And, then.  Well…

What can we say, our client’s are the BEST!

Happy Friday eveyone!