AND.....

We're opening up 4 of the 6 fireplaces to be working...they just started knocking through to put in a new flue

And the brand new stairway/hall skylight. So shiny.
If coca cola would like to sponsor me, please do. So many bottles and cans subtly placed here and there...I have the brand-placement down. Don't you feel like drinking coke?

New sheetrock, old doors...

Hopefully some of the old salvage doors will balance out the sheetrock...

Basement (from hall to back bedroom)

top floor bathroom:
Parlor floor bathroom:
And basement bath...

Top Floor

Seems like the 2nd floor--which will be for the tenant--is getting sheet-rocked first.

This is looking towards the living room (bathroom on the left, large closet on the right)

It's hard to tell, even with Todd in there for scale, but the ceilings in the front room are ridiculously high. We had to fight the contractor to leave them that way and let them slope--but it was so worth it.

and towards the back of the house where their kitchen will be:
It's hard for me to look at all this sheet-rock, thinking about the old plaster walls that used to be there, but I just have to think about the details that will go in later....lots and lots of details. Please.

The tubs...

are in place....more or less.

(don't ask me how they got this one to the top floor--it's like 500 lbs)

Huh. (Part 2)

Oh, You're going to like this! Apparently this little step was created because the floor was raised so much when they leveled everything out... But the top step of the stairway can't be raised enough to match it. The solution was that they were intending to create a little RAMP from this mini step to the top stair. Yes. I said ramp. A ramp at the top of a set of stairs. Sounds safe to me.

Now it looks like we will have to completely replace the stairs and banister which really stinks, but it's the only way to make it fit. I love that original banister. Such a shame.

Huh.

The thing I'm learning about this whole construction thing is that if you don't stop by every single day...bad things happen.

Would anyone like to tell me why:

My ceiling is getting lowered 10 full inches for no reason? (That bar there is the new framing--it doesn't look like much in the photo...but trust me.)
Or, maybe,... Why the pipe is BELOW the framing for the ceiling and not above? (we're in the bathroom--and that's the new skylight)
or What is this weird little mini mystery step above the flight of stairs on the 2nd floor landing?

Just curious, that's all.

The new ghost of Redhook