The Wall Street Journal did a story today on “The three-martini renovation” that included details about our demolition party that we had before we demolished our previous house on the lot. Check out the story here! It’s on page W1 of the print version.
About half-way down the page, there’s a picture of Kyle smashing his leg through a wall.
We finally received a permit to raze the house! With a huge yellow bulldozer, the house was destroyed in a matter of minutes. The funniest thing is that right before it was to be bulldozed, with all of the windows and doors taken out, spray paint all over the house, total destruction on the inside, and a huge machine in the front yard getting ready to reek havoc on the house, some kid came up and asked Kyle if the house was for rent!
Watch the video of the house being destroyed as we watched from across the street. You can hear Kyle’s cackle as the house quickly disintegrates.
Our house building saga began way back in July 2006 when we decided to have a pre-house demolition party prior to its real demolition date. We invited friends over to help get the demolition underway, with the thought that people would bring spray paint and some hammers to have a festive evening. We thought we’d be able to save a section of the spray-painted drywall to put in the new house as a memorial. Alas, what we didn’t realize, is just how much pent up aggression many of our female friends had been withholding over the years. While the guys hung out on the front yard, the girls destroyed the inside of the house — some wielding a crowbar in one hand and a sledgehammer in the other. It was frightening! The end result was a bare-bones house with little left to hold it standing. From the outside, it looked like the house had been vandalized:
And from the inside, it was completely torn apart:
We had fun getting there:
