Merry Christmas!!!
My very thoughtful present to all of you is a brief update on the house.
In more good news, the drywallers are finished hanging the drywall throughout the house, including the 3rd floor (attic). The mudders are almost finished with the 2nd floor, including fixing the plaster that was left. It will probably be about a 2-4 weeks and the entire house will be mudded and drywalled (including some not so great drywall that was hung before in the addition- they are going to fix that, as well as the hole that was under the sheep/men wallpaper in the front parlor).
In other news, Alok has been furiously scrapping off the 12+ layers of paint that is on all of the wood work. Here it is now:
Stairs sans white paint (and under layers of pink, green, black, etc)
Front window seat is now scrapped 
Close-up on the window seat
More window seat.
Close up on the banister/staircase
Now that some of the front room is cleaned, you can see the fireplace
Eric checking out the lovely drywall on the first floor
Staircase wood being stripped
Staircase
Area around the pocket door that was scrapped....my mom wondering about the black underneath 
Apartment bath. Alok laid the hardy backer board (is that what it's called) that required him to mix a cement-like substance....I'll show you where he mixed that....
Staircase and close up on the door to the bathroom under the stairs
Another close up on the doorway in the dining room, apartment bathroom under the stairs
Peeled wood for the 2nd set of pocket doors....
Our kitchen....aka the cement mixing area.... hmmmm.... on the floors we are keeping
Another view of the apartment bath
Fireplace in the apartment area... something needs to be done here!
I wonder where this door came from/now leads too.....in the media room
Hardy backer board (?) on the floor of the apartment bathroom
Going upstairs.... close up on the the painted/scrapped version
Upstairs plaster has been skim coated
Upstairs plaster has been skim coated
Our shower.... aka door/tool storage area
Attic stairs.... sans door
Random door (maybe attic?) in the yellow bedroom
Our bathroom closet.... hmmmm.... I think the floor needs some help
Our master bath jacuzzi tub.......The attic drywall has been hung, which is fairly exciting since it has never been finished. Here it is:
Attic stairs
Media area in the attic
Attic stairway
My mom checking out the attic
Attic bathroom
Projection area
Attic closet
Random attic stuff
Wood beams, which will be covered with something
Attic
Built in HDMI cords for the projector
My mom trying out the little box area that is hiding duct workAs for the rest of the house, some parts could still use some work. Here is the additional bathroom upstairs, which Alok has actually been using:
check out that clean bathroom
Only about 8 inches of drywall dust
Alok's office...aka the storage area. What will be interesting is trying to get our real furniture, etc from the garage while moving all of this stuff for storage into the garage. That's all for now. Merry Christmas!
Jessica
