Progress!!! I NEED OPINIONS!!

So, we are thinking about not putting our island back in...
we are considering putting a peninsula in as pictured here.
We would take out our sliding glass door and put in a single door with windows.
This would use up half of our breakfast room, or eat-in-kitchen...
We would have an overhanging bar thing-y with stools where we would eat most of our meals
and we would set up our dining room with a table to feed guests!
WHAT DO YOU THINK!?!?!

So there is finally Progress in our house (and yes I mean Progress with a capital P)!!

We have walls and ceilings again!!

Destruction part 2

This just made me laugh. The water only ruined half of the carpet and pad on the stairs...Really?

Ruined parts of the ceiling were removed.

Destruction

This is the part of the wall that had to come out leaving our family and garage open to each other. Perfect for this time of year and our freezing weather! Can't wait to see my BGE bill this month!

They had to rip up all of the flooring in the basement.

That is our bedroom with no carpet, and everything stacked on top of the bed. They had all kinds of fans and dehumidifiers throughout the house.

This was the hardest part for me. I just cried and cried when I saw it. The flooring in the basement had swelled from the water and was ruined. You can see it on the door too, the water just soaked into everything.

On the bright side, the workers just came in today and are putting new drywall up!! We came home two weeks ago today and found the mess. Our insurance should be covering all of the repairs. And we will have nice, new carpet and walls, and ceilings!