re: Old Kitchen Renovation: Here We Go....

Yeah boy, been down this road a few times myself. Open things up and the mystery awaits as to what is behind the once finished walls, floors and ceilings.

My very first house was an old single shotgun in the Lower 9th Ward and it was real old, being built out of old barge boards harvested off wooden barges floated down the Mississippi River back in the early days of river transport.

It was cheaper to dismantle them and repurpose the lumber than to send them back up river at the time.

I ran into this type construction again when helping remodel my now late father-in-laws house in CENLA years ago. It was build out of whatever the family could get hold of back in the 50's and it had a lot of construction just like your pics-----bare wood, painted wood, dimensional lumber, rough cut lumber and plywood.

Good luck with your project.