How to patch where that window was...

With Grandma in the TCU, getting the hole cut between the addition and the existing house took a higher priority. Thankfully Korey was able to come over the night before she was supposed to be discharged and he and Matt worked together to get the opening cut through the old exterior wall.

Look at that! From the entry we can now look right through into the kitchen!!

As a 1939 house, the original cape cod is finished with plaster, and not drywall like more modern houses. We'd been wondering how we were going to make a decent patch where we removed the old window. Matt had a brilliant idea - we saved the chunk of plaster and backer that we had to cut out when we cut the doorway between the new addition and the existing kitchen! For a few weeks, it just lay against the wall in the kitchen next to the opening:

Looks kind of funny!

But then, when he had a free afternoon, he carefully measured, and cut it down to size: 

And now, with a few screws and some joints to patch, we've got a finished wall surface that perfectly matches the original 1939 finish!

It will never be "perfect" but it will look WAY better than any other option we had beyond refinishing that entire wall! We particularly like the way the plaster was finished on the lower (white) half of the wall. It's smoothed and scored to look like tile, because, as a Depression era house, there was no budget to *actually* tile the walls in the kitchen.

So there's one more little bit done! AND Grandma got to come home up the ramp and roll right into the house on level ground. Amazing. Besides the even more amazing fact that now Bobbi can get herself in and out of the house independently! After nearly eight years of needing to be carried in and out every time, she can now do it by herself. :)