La démolition commence: degré zéro

Here come the obligatory before pictures.

This is the view facing East, and it's the pertinent one today. I was originally going to start with the base cabinets, and then imagined standing on top of the nonexistent base cabinets to remove the wall cabinets. Notice the part of the ceiling that's just above those wall cabinets—that's the "soffit," or so we're told. I was particularly interested to see what would happen when the wall cabinets came down: would there just be a hole? Bare plaster? Concrete? Gold?

Since the base cabinets will be more of an issue tomorrow or the next day, here's an image of them as well.