House Updates

Isn't this beautiful? This is a built-in cabinet that WAS in our dining room. Unfortunately now it's not. See below.
Our scary stairs with such a bad drop off. Notice the top of the picture, no head room when going down the stairs.
BEFORE!
During the process. No stairs-this scared me!
This is Jim who did all the work and such a nice job. This is a picture at the top of the stairs. If you look straight across (that is where the built-in was on the other side of the wall) here he had to cut out into the floor to make head room to walk down the stairs.
Rodger even got to have some of the fun.
AFTER! Now notice the head room, plenty!
The new regular stairs. Now Rodger doesn't have to duck his head on the way down.
Once the wall was patched up and waiting for the cabinet to be finished, this is what we got to look at for too long!
The finished piece! Beautiful. It's too bad when we do move we can't take this with us. It's built into the wall, because of the above picture, if it was gone, that's what it would look like.
The front view.
Doing little house updates like this are: messy, long, stressful, but worth it in the end. I really miss my cute built-in, but this new cabinet gives us more storage and matched perfect with our dining room set. We're starting a new project today......I will post once it's complete-I'm excited for this one.