8 Year Kitchen Renovation for Camelot

When we moved into the house, our realtor had said "what I would do is take out the room above the kitchen and vault the ceiling to the roof". Well he made it sound easy and a few weeks work if we just did it before we moved in. I wanted to do a rolling renovation in stages...it took 8 years!

Move-in photos! Note the position of the stove, with extractor, door to the woodshed and fridge. The room was "heated" by two sections of baseboard radiator. The walls and ceiling paneling held back the original plaster. The ceiling beams are screwed to the ceiling and are formed in two halves.

The kitchen was added around 1890 as a "ballon framed" extension to the 1760 stone house - the required entrances to do this were cut through the stone walls and the edges left unfinished behind the final trim. It was built with a second floor - although the apex kept the door clearances and standing room to 5'5" at its edges. The ground floor was leveled as logs on dirt withing a simple field stone foundation.