Remodel: Day Ten

One unhappy cat

More drywall went up on the ceiling today. Now the studio up to the kitchen is done as is the side entry down the boys' hallway. Yay! The porch ceiling, chimney, and bathroom are all that remain.

In which I am a little complainy. The plastic is starting to annoy me, mostly because I haven't planned very well. For two days in a row now, I have come home from the grocery store with perishables--eggs, milk, ice cream, raw shrimp--and not been able to get into the kitchen. And, it has been difficult to get to the working bathrooms. I now feel total empathy with Nancy, our poor cat who refuses to walk through the construction zone to get to her food or the litterbox.

There are so many screws in the drywall, which seems like overkill and reminds me of the thousands of staples that held down the carpet pad in our old house (John and I pried each out of the floor before we had the hardwood refinished). I am skeptical about how well the screwheads will be camouflaged before painting. Also, I'm noticing the drywall doesn't have the neatest edges and looks raggedy where it meets the walls. When the drywall sub did the walk-through he assured me that care would be taken to make neat edges. The goal of which is to avoid needing crown molding to cover the edges. Honestly, I don't have anything against crown molding but they don't fit our aesthetic, and the absence of them keeps the knotty pine walls from looking hokey. Hopefully Larry will be able to shed some light

More photos, hopefully, tomorrow.