gutted

From the short story Fiction by Alice Munro

Why this should be so, more than with ordinary windows, Joyce could not say. Perhaps it was that most were meant not to look out on but to open directly into the forest darkness, and that they displayed the haven of home so artlessly. Full-length people cooking or watching television - scenes that beguiled her, even if she knew things things would not be so special inside.
What she saw when she turned in to her own unpaved puddled driveway was the set of these doors put in by Jon, framing the gutted glowing interior of their house.

In this context I read gutted to mean nearly the same expressed by the words "that they displayed the haven of home" in the sentence before.
Any help is much appreciated👁 Smile :)
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To me, "gutted" means that everything inside has been ripped out.

I agree with Slater1768.

To gut means to remove the insides of something: you gut fish, for example.

From a quick look at the context, Jon and Joyce are renovating the house.

To gut:

1. to destroy the interior of: Fire gutted the building.

Is the house on fire? Why is it glowing?

Here's the next sentence, suzi:

The subsequent text as follows:

....the gutted glowing interior of their house. The stepladder, the unfinished kitchen shelves, exposed stairs, warm wood lit up by the lightbulb that Jon positioned to shine whereever he wanted it, whereever he was working. He worked all day in his shed, and then when it began to get dark he sent his apprentice home and started working on the house. Hearing her car, he would turn his head in Joyce's direction just for a moment, in greeting. Usually his hands would be to busy to wave. Sitting there, with the car lights off, gathering up whatever groceries or mail she had to take into the house, Joyce was happy even to have that last dash to the door, through the dark and the wind and the cold rain. (crossed with the post #6)

Ah - just an electric light then?

Thank you very much indeed👁 Smile :)