Dining Room (Old Kitchen) - rocking!

The old kitchen is getting transformed into a dining room... Demo is complete, and the sheetrocking started!

View from the window

New section of ceiling

Two of the walls will be getting sheetrock on them as well.

Master Bedroom- sheetrock

After the water damage, and ripping down the ceiling, and then adding some framing for the new sheet rock, they've finally gotten started on sheetrocking the master bedroom ceiling!

View from the hall doorway

Note the bathtub still sitting there!!!  Grrrr....

Framing Bedroom Ceiling

With the upstairs tiling complete (and that equipment out of our master bedroom), they were finally able to make some progress on the framing of the ceiling so that new drywall can go up!

Happily, they got rid of the old ceiling fan.  I love having a fan in the bedroom, just not that one!  We have picked out a new one that has lights.

Doorway into new master bath

It's been over four weeks that we've been crammed into the boys bedrooms, so I'm excited to see some progress here!

Sheet Rock- Day 5

While the guys were working upstairs, the contractor had a few tweaks to do to make the walls level/plumb for the drywall.

Strips of wood added

More rock removal!

Now they finally are ready to get some of the downstairs dry wall up!  They have started with the ceiling...

From the backdoor

Reverse- from the butler's pantry

Half way done with the half bath ceiling

Grrr- The plumbers didn't finish putting a trap here,
so a hole was left open for them to complete that.

Raising the Roof...

Well, not really... but I thought it sounded better than "Raising the Ceiling"!

So, now that you know the plan for exposed beams in the future media room... that got Mike thinking.  And that got him ripping...

He was off from work one day, and I came home to find the ceiling of the third floor hallway ripped down!  I was a little upset with him- but only because he didn't take before or during photos.  So, I'll do my best with "before" photos being from the light fixture getting installed (yep- that newly installed fixture had to come back down!)

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

I thought the idea itself is fantastic!  This will make that low ceiling hallway feel much more open!  But it's definitely in the "looking worse before it can look better" stage.

From hallway, looking toward unfinished
 storage area

Mike has built support beams/framing so that we can sheetrock up to the roof peak & enclose the new media room.

He had to do the same thing on the other side, to extend the wall seperating the unfinished storage area from the hallway.
Here he also needed to put up plywood so that the spray foam insulation has something to stick to.

Mike also has been doing this under the eaves, where the unfinished section will meet the finished section's storage area (for insulation purposes).


Of course, we're running into little unexpected issues... like the fact that the molding medallions were cut in half where they met the old ceiling (we were hoping they'd be whole underneath the plaster!)

We'll need to come up with a better solution there!


Also, there's the electric wire that runs down the stairs for the light switch...  It was fine when the ceiling was much lower, but now we need to run it up higher, and it's about 3 inches too short!  Grrr... just 3 inches!!!