Finally Sheetrock!

We had been told that the wallboard would be done this week. We received  confirmation before arriving this morning and are pleased to finally cross that hurdle.

This is the entrance hall.  You can see the edge of the front closet on the left.  Ahead is the kitchen, and in the distance the window with the view of the bay.

This is the kitchen with the half-wall, then the great room. 

There are still, weeks later, men working on installing siding and lath on the outside.  One is on a ladder outside the window!

The Propane gas lines are installed, but some places still awaiting final approval by the county inspector. 

Looking back through the kitchen is the front entrance - the door will not be put in until after most construction is completed so no one can damage it.  The boxes hold the dish washer and the drawer microwave.  Just to the left of the boxes you can see the doorway into the bedroom hallway. In the distance is a window in the master bedroom. 

Walking past the kitchen half-wall, this is a view across the great room.  There is a small closet behind the kitchen area which will have the ladder up into the attic for access to the AC equipment.  Behind that is the stairs to the basemen.  Above the stairs is the alcove for the wall hung TV and the video equipment shelf next to it. The door in the corner is to my office.

Looking the other direction in the great room is the sun porch.  There will be 12 inch deep kitchen cabinets along the outside wall of the kitchen, under the window on the right all the way to the end of the half-wall.  Lots of storage space for all the sets of china we seem to have collected. 

Finally, my office.  We decided to go ahead and replace the current door with one in Douglas Fir, similar to the front door. 


Trigger Warning: All gardeners should stop before looking at the last photo because it is very disturbing. 

I warned you!  That muddy area with scattered pieces of leaves was a beautiful garden.  The "Secret Garden" has been the main entrance into and out of the house for the last few months, and is in terrible shape.

Most plants have safely died back for the winter.  The orange tomato cage protects a seedling from the Japanese Snowbell tree.  The contractor has promised that soon this area will no longer be pummeled by work boots, and everyone will be going in and out the front entrance.  I hope so, because some of those plants, such as the day lilies, are starting to put up early shoots.