Walls and Spaces in Walls

Today, the walls went up! First, all the electric and plumbing had to be finalized.  Then we added insulation (itchy stuff I tell ya) between studs. Then drywall was hung.

insulation in the walls

When we were at Cory and Steve's for dinner (thanks guys!) Len broke through the dining room wall for our pass through!  I hadn't exactly told him my lighting plans so now we have to undo some of the work, but the pass through is now here!

Len is mudding right now and I'm about to go help.  By tomorrow night we may have paint on the walls.  Alex and I hastily picked out 'Homestead Resort Tea Room Yellow', which hopefully looks as good on the walls tomorrow as it did on the little tiny paper this afternoon.

Dust and Plumbing Continue

Here I am working today on the stove alcove.  I took down all the studs for the old divider walls and cut out nails in prep to repair the drywall tomorrow.

Notice Hawise in the corner of the picture?  She loves to monitor our work and steal pieces of drywall to chew on in her crate.  We try to stop her, of course, because who knows what ingesting gypsum will do to a silly dog.

Our friend Steve (at right) came over today to help.  We put him to work tearing our the pass through and preparing the walls for drywall installation.  Leonard and Alex were still fixing the brown water return plumbing pictured below.  By the end of the day, plumbing fixes were complete, most of the wiring is in place, ceiling drywall is hung, and walls are prepped for drywall hanging tomorrow.

Anyone want to guess how many times we were at Lowes?  Hint - two more than any project should require in a single day.