If you asked me in my old age to tell you one thing about my life as it was today, I’d tell you that it was the day when Matt Rooke and Carla began work on widening the doorway between our living room and kitchen by doing some demolition and moving the electrical. I mention it because it was the beginning of something Carla had been looking forward to doing for a few years now, having been unable to resist opening the famous “hole in the wall” (to be fair, she did ask permission from me) in a lull of home improvement spending between when we sprang for our first 4K of solar panels and when we had Envinity install new windows. She was getting itchy back then, and it was my dad who suggested that if she wanted to widen the doorway, the first step would be to open an exploratory hole to discern where the electrical wires went.
It was our first foster care home study, which was to happen on February 2, that prompted us get beyond the hole-in-the-wall stage moving on this project now. You can’t have exposed electrical when you have strange children in your house.