More Progress

The drywall is up and the first primer coats are down (many thanks to Sarah's parent's for helping out on the cost of the drywall install and to my dad for helping out with the priming).

Getting the beam ready for trim involved attaching some furring strips and cutting the bolts down at the connectors.  The new toy is in this picture too...a 12" Bosch compound miter saw.

Sarah spent the day cleaning the brick in the background.

'Rockin

Well we finally got around to hanging the sheet rock this past week (with a tremendous help from the contractor) so we're starting to see the space materialize.  It's a whole lot brighter down there too.  Sarah and I took the entire week off and in that span we...

- built the 45 degree wall in the kitchen
- finished installing the kitchen vent
- had some more electrical work done
- helped the contractor hang the drywall
- mudded and sanded the drywall
- finished the last couple pieces of the floor
- finished painting the stairwell
- painted the front porch decking
- had some painting done on the exterior
- took a mountain of things to the dump
- picked up a window to get installed downstairs
- demo'd half of the downstairs bathroom

Not bad for a week's work...here are some pictures:

Hanging drywall..........fun

Sarah tearing apart the downstairs bathroom

Getting ready for another fun outing to the dump...that's the old bathtub surround standing up.

Sarah's mom came down to help sand over the weekend.

Another view of the living room....it's getting there.