Wallcoverings II

Ninety-five percent of our walls are covered and finished. The exceptions being one wall in our bedroom and the utility room. The bedroom wall because it is a foam wall that takes a different skill set and the utility room because I am still doing some plumbing in there. The pictures below are the pine upstairs. It was a fairly big project (especially the vaulted area above the stairs) but we couldn't be happier with it. Our point and shoot camera doesn't do a very good job of capturing the vastness of the vaulted stairwell, but here it is.

I called this our sistine bedroom because of all the 'artfully' cut angles. You can see I still have one spot where all the angles come together to figure out.

That's the foam wall that still needs to be finished.

Here is a bird's eye view of the finished walls on the first floor ... and a lot of tools and mess.

In other news. I have finally pumped water out of our well. This may not seem like a large feat for anyone reading this, but it was a big deal to me as my plumbing and electrical skills are lacking. We are using a Grundfos deep well pump and a Square D pumptrol switch with a 32 gallon pressure tank.

I left the wires long because I wasn't all that confident that I was going to get it right on the first try, so they still need to be cleaned up a bit.

Next week, a toilet! Indoors!

Wallcoverings

While we are busy hanging the pine carsiding upstairs, we hired a couple workers to hang drywall on the first floor. They should be back this week to tape and mud.

It's blue because it's pretty. Not really, it is mold resistant drywall. It's a little more expensive but we thought it was worth the money.

Also, we had them spray lacquer the beams and sealing.

So far we have the hallway and one bedroom mostly covered in pine. We are working up to the vaulted ceiling over our stairwell. It will be our pine finale.

Once the walls are covered we can work on putting in fixtures and making the house functional. We are so close to having toilets!