The Doors

December 25, 2011

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 work


As 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