Upstairs Progress!

Welp, we finally cleaned up the endless plaster mess from the demo...and started working on finishing the first half of the upstairs. eeeee!!! 

Here is the entrance to the master, from the top of the stairs ... After a solid day of argument, I won, and the door was moved  over 6 feet. It was alot of work for Kyle, but it made a huge difference in the look of the size of the room. We couldn't change the layout very much due to my serious need for a massive closet, so there was a whole lot of *Mandie takes... Kyle gives* in this scenario... Oops :) aHHH well. He will see it worth it when its all done :) 

  Here is the view from the bedroom into the walk through closet... Yes.. thats right I said it... walk through closet. He gets a side... I get a (bigger) side.... and if you keep walking, you'll end up in our master ensuite. LOVE.

         Here is the Master Bedroom! I know. Pretty fancy eh? But that sprayfoam actually is fancy. And expensive. I mayaswell show it off before we cover it up with drywall :) You think it would be hard to live in a bedroom without walls? I kind of miss it. All of the nails were left in the studs from the lath & plaster, so I always had something to hang my clothes on :) Theres always a positive.... at least i'll die trying to find it while living with this bedroom...

                 

                                            yayyyy sprayfoam

                                     



                     Here it is all pretty & Drywalled!!! EEEEEEEEEE WALLS ARE SO GREAT

There she is! My hallway! We took the VERY USEFUL (but unfortunatley awfully big and ugly) storage unit out of the corner, and left us with a HUGE  open space for a built in window bench/wall desk unit. Hopefully that will look a little more sleek :) Here is the useful, yet ugly storage hub...

Here is the space without it! Much better! Can't wait to draw up some plans for this space :)

                            Kyle's half of the walk-through clost...
 

                     My (larger) side of the walk through closet :)

  This is the only picture I have for the ensuite bathroom.. Its room past the walk through closet. its where we are sleeping right now... sooo needless to say, i'm excited to get this finished so I can stop sleeping in my bathroom. hahaha

The other half of the upstairs will just be left sprayfoamed, we will most likely finish this next fall, but we realy want to get this reno done wihtout any debt, so it will have to wait untill my ensuite is finished.. because i'm selfiish, and well, we don't need 2 childrens bedrooms yet, as we have no children :) its all sprayfoamed and toasty though... thats about all I have to update :) 

      

                             

ciao! :) 

Plaster is F&%$ing heavy.

Sooo. Last night was not fun. Our plaster repair friend, Ryan, told us that pretty much our entire hallway has reached its lifespan, and we will have to get rid of it.

Here is the hallway before..

       

Here's after Kyle got the fun part of ripping out the plaster....

See how much it crumbled? I guess he was right!!! 

                                     

          Then i got to take out all my aggression on the lath. Which was kinda fun. The cleanup? Not fun.
Butttt here's where we are at at this point. Just gotta cut the lath that leads to the next room, and then we are ready for drywall!

  

Holy S%#$. This is gonna suck.

                            So..... the baseboards are off of the wall in the Dining room/Nook.

And in certain lights, the baseboards look like they are in good shape....

But once we got them off of the walls, they are not the best. So hopefully we can restore them.

Fingers crossed...

Playing with what to do with this bannister.... The baseboards will be white.

So I'm thinking... White spindles, Dark Rail and Top Post, and Not sure about the bottom of the treads. 

Whatevs. Thats wayyyyyyyy down the road anyways. Just dreamin. 

Now that my assistant duties were not needed today, I could finish off the cupboards. They are lookin rad. 

 Aaaaand here is the nook. Gigantic, eh? I love it. The baseboards are off, most of the wall trim and wallpaper is off, this room is pretty much ready for flooring and paint.