A Busy Weekend

We had workers at the house all weekend and there was so much accomplished. To start with, we have walls!!! Sure, you may take your walls for granted, but to be truly excited about walls you must have lived without them for awhile. We purchased the house on June 30th. July 1st, the interior was gutted and since that time we have been without walls. And now?

TA-DA!!!

Shall we take a walk down memory lane? Below are some shots from roughly the same spot in the house. Here is one taken a couple hours after we closed on the house:



The sad little kitchen was closed off and very 60's, but not in a cool way. And here is the same shot taken 24 hours later:

A little more open, but far from dinner party ready. The house stayed in this shape for a while with a series of small changes. Eventually the old frames came down, and a steel beam went up. Things looked really open, but no rooms were defined and it was hard to get a feel for the new floor plan until the framing stage.

If we could zoom out, we could see the open kitchen.
 Here we can see the powder room framed out and the end of hall wall.
The master bath is shown on the other side of that wall.

After 8 or 9 weeks, we now have the new walls up. It may seem like a small step, but trust me it is HUGE!!!!! As evidenced by all the exclamation marks. I am embarrassed to admit that I have spent way to much time this weekend just wandering through the top floor. I carried a tape measure in order to feel like I had a purpose. Take a look at these beautiful shots:

Hallway to den/masters, wall of powder room, and south kitchen wall

Looking in to den, I swear that old toilet is in a new spot everyday.
Why is no one putting this in the dumpster?

Looking into master bedroom.
Old windows dry walled and new windows have plywood awaiting glass delivery.

Standing in den looking across the hall to the masters bedroom.
Door to future powder room on left.

More plywood windows in the kitchen waiting for glass. Three windows (the middle being a bigger one).
The plywood space to the right (by saw horse) will be the door to roof deck.

 

What a little creeper!

We have our screw inspection tomorrow (fingers crossed). If we pass, we have the mudder guy scheduled to start taping and mudding later that day. We are going to go with a smooth finish, so the mudding stage will take a while. There will be a few rounds of mudding and sanding before the walls are completely smooth. Again, this may seem like a small thing, but most of the places I have ever lived have had textured walls so I am STOKED to be getting smooth.

So yeah, this was a busy weekend.