Beginning to feel as if I am getting somewhere with this project. Chris, Ed and I hung (some) of the drywall on Saturday. Was pretty smooth except for a few odd spaces. Tonight DLB and I are going to hang drywall in the bathroom now that I was able to create a nice clean path for 3″ of ducting for the bathroom. I will still need to cut the outside of the aluminum siding this weekend and cut a 4″ hole for the vent cover. Looking forward to that. Here are some images of the progress. I still can not find time to shoot pics of us actually working, but this is at least what we have been up to. I also want to show the final concrete pour and the drainage for the bathroom. Its pretty impressive. I still sit back and amaze myself. This is the first house I ever lived in, so I have no idea where this energy and understanding comes from…

This is just a quick sketch I did of what we are thinking with respect to color and shape of the room as we get closer to completion.  The first image is what is there now. We removed a door that was built in the way of the upstairs landing. I have no idea why the home owner did this, but its the way it is. We were thinking of using clay tile and covering that up with a decorative “Established” date of some sort as tribute to the character of the house. I am looking for places where I can either fire my own tile or have someone make it.