adios wood paneling!

Goodbye paneling, hello world of drywall.

Would you say it was a freudian slip that as I type "Hello world of drywall" my first go round it read "Hell world of drywall". For anyone who has spent anytime with it, you understand. . . Although my Dad corrected me last night- I really hadn't been dry walling, I had been kind of helping put it up. Logistics! I overcame my fear of standing on the top ladder step as I fixed insulation in the peek of the ceiling of the living room, felt a strong dislike for having to put plastic up everywhere as a moisture barrier. Oh did I mention? We replaced a lot of the insulation after tearing the paneling off prior to putting up drywall. In fact as I'm getting paged from work even though I don't start for another three hours I'm looking at the wall thinking you have no idea when you asked "I hate to bother you, are you in the middle of something?"

So that you can begin to appreciate this- one of the issues my Dad had with this particular house was the siding on the right fireplace side bowed out in a spot- although the foundation hadn't moved, fireplace stiff in place, the siding was bowing... well he found the reason after he opened up the wall and had to replace a few studs- the studs the builder had used had bowed out, pushing the siding of the house out. Un-nailing the siding, fixing some studs and re-nailing hours later ...voila ! We have perfect siding.

Now I know I skipped ahead a few beats but I'm going to catch you up so that you too can have as much fun as we are having on the daily basis here at Valeria Spa and Salon- ha ha ha!



To the left is the original sleep station # 1 in the living room, it is hard to tell with the photo quality but that is the old paneling and small single window that has been replaced by the double window and drywall !

Below is another photo of the very much lacking front wall of the living room. You can see the progression of the work- sleep stations have been moved to the bedrooms and we now have living room furniture being stored in the middle of the room and covered in an attempt to salvage until the remodeling is done and I hope to purchase new!




Next came drywall after the sheer pleasures of tearing down all the old paneling and fixing the insulation.See how much better it is with no paneling, new window and new floors!?

So...as we're in the middle of this and we're debating about french doors, no doors, what kind of door(s) I want coming from the kitchen to the living room my Dad mentions a pocket door. Now that the pocket door I decided would be great is finally cased in and I'd say nearly done he won't admit it, but I'm guessing he regretted at some point offering this as a choice. It was necessary to make a choice at this point so we could finish the drywall on that end of the room. You may notice there's only drywall on the upper 2/3 of the wall that is because I hope to put a waynes coating(not sure this is the proper name/spelling) on the lower 1/3.

Pocket door! The original opening was 30inches but I wanted the biggest you could do with the pocket door so we went for 36inch. My Dad surprised me with a 6 panel door for this opening as we'll continue to watch for a 15 light door to put in this pocket!