The sink is a vintage thing, and it's a shame not to reuse it but the price of refinishing it will be much greater than a new and more useful version. We'll save it, just in case we change our mind.
the walls are covered with yellow faux-tiles. It's basically particle board with a tile-pattern embossed on it. Under that is something else very similar which seems to be made of tar and hair with a smooth finish. Also it looks like tiles, but is much harder to remove. Below that is tongue and groove wood - very hard to remove.
The upper half is plasterboard, the only plasterboard in the house that was not installed by us. Sadly, it's not up to snuff as it's been installed over the particle board, the same soft, crappy particle board that's been used on every fecking inch of wall and ceiling in the entire house. The whole lot must come down, sadly that includes the ceiling.
Faux tile board over older faux tile board
Plasterboard over orange-painted particle board. So much to remove. Those wooden strips don't come out without a fight, either.
Ugly vinyl flooring, over less ugly vinyl flooring over plywood over old vinyl tiles over boards.
The flooring had to be pulled up, but the plywood over the tile over the boards will provide a strong subfloor for the new tiles.
Time to remove that wall, not easy and keeping in mind the roof strucuture, I had to leave in some strategic bits.
crappy board on both sides
Plywood over crappy board on the dining room side
getting better
A little more removed
Next is to figure out how to rewire the power cables and run them down the walls.
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