I live in an HGTV house

While I was in Vegas finding out that Proxy is still too green to really take her act on the road, Rick destroyed more house...

There used to be "accent wood" on the door and the wall around it, and big decorative 

beams going from the front door to the right to the entrance to the back of the house.

Here is the top of the front door - Rick took the trim off around the 

doors and you can see where the beams used to be.

The opposite side

There was also a decorative beam near the TV end of the back of the house and when Rick took that one down, he figured out that there used to be a wall there, so there was a fifth bedroom in this house.

There was another one of those beams across here.

More decorative wood used to be here.

This is what that decorative wood looks like - I don't think I have any pictures of the 

beams - they kind of looked like the bottom portion of this picture except bigger.

So, this Thanksgiving vacation we'll be sanding, mudding and painting!  Rick also started stripping paint off of the kitchen cabinet doors and I'll work on that during the week.  I'll be very glad to get "new" cabinet doors!