The Trailer Inside Holiday House is Officially Gone

We’ve been waiting for this day for what feels like forever.

The small cottage on our farm that we call Holiday House was originally a single wide trailer put there in the 50’s or 60’s. Then, some time later, they built an entire house around it and added on, effectively enclosing the trailer inside the frame of an actual house. When we bought it, we always knew we wanted to demolish the trailer side to raise the ceilings and windows and now, finally, that day has come!

PJ hired a crew to demo the trailer side and cut it out of the house and they’re finishing up today! I say cut it out because they literally had to cut the metal 1950’s trailer out to get rid of it. It’s actually quite fascinating. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It’s not cleaned just yet and there’s insulation everywhere, but now that the walls are down and it’s one big open space (on what was once the old trailer side), it’ll be easier for us to draw up floor plans and envision what we want for the space.

Right now, we know we have to fit part of the kitchen, a bathroom/laundry room, the boys’ room, and our primary bathroom in the space of the demoed side. Holiday House isn’t big by any means, so we’re going to have to get creative in how we lay it out. Luckily, PJ loves to come up with floor plans and stretch his creativity to the max in the process.

This is going to be so fun!! It’s just the start, but things are happening fast and PJ is making it all come together at what feels like lightning speed, after almost a year of no progress on Holiday House. We’re hoping to be finished, or close to it, by the beginning of summer.

Here we go!!