Sanity?

Living Room/Dining Room Before and After

So, you take one perfectly good living room/dining room combo, add a boz, a Robert and three day laborers and you get THIS! I get it! It makes perfect sense, right? Right.

Who needs the one (or two, depending on if you are convinced the columns placed just inches from the wall actually create a second room) room that absolutely nothing really needs to be done to? We can't have THAT!

We have a loan to burn through. So instead, let's tear out the plasterboard ceiling...(On a side note, did you know that plasterboard might as well be cement if you consider it's weight and dustiness? See those particles lit up like little stars in the after picture - plasterboard remnants and a little bit of insulation. There will be health repercussions, I am sure.)...and let's rewire everything west of the dining room...and then let's fabricate a partition of some sort on the ceiling of the dining room so it can actually be a separate dining area and so that we conceal the strange roof line that changes in the middle of the room (which, by the way, we exposed because we decided there was merit to tearing out a perfectly good ceiling)...and then let's put it all back together with a vaulted ceiling.

Do sane people wake up in the morning and think these things up? I am not sure. Because apparently I don't know any sane people! At least not among the architect, the contractor, the subs and the bozTEAM!

Will anyone appreciate that we no longer have 8 ft ceilings in the first two rooms you enter in the house? I am not sure about that either. After all, I am only 5 ft 2 on a good posture day and the ceiling height seemed ok to me.