A Room With A View

We haven't posted in a while because I was hoping the next pictures we posted would be of the finished drywall, but although most of the rigid insulation board is in, I guess the drywall is taking a long time, due to the odd angles, peaks, and valleys and such. The skylights in the boys' room have been installed, and it definitely brightens up the place! We are told that the skylights in the hallway and the bathroom will be done next week.


Here's the mostly finished drywall in the front "reading" room (pink board covering the front window),

and in the larger part of the master bedroom,

and looking through the main master bedroom into what will be the closet, with a pocket door, the frame of which has yet to be installed.


A lot of the work that has gone on lately has to do with the HVAC. In the back of this picture is the heating/cooling unit that will take up most of the knee wall space on that side.

Geez, I would hate to have to crawl around in there to service that thing. All of the silver tubing and ducts really make me think of the movie "Brazil". As long as it works, I guess I don't care what it looks like behind the walls.


The other area of progress has been the bathroom. The shower is coming along, with the cement board (or whatever, forgive me I don't know all that goes into making a shower) in place and we think the tiling will start in a week or so.


We've run into another stumbling block because of the steep pitch of the roof in the bathroom on the right side of the vanity - we may not have enough room for the 2 mirrors we've already ordered that go over each sink in the vanity. And we definitely won't have enough room for a separate light over each of those mirrors, as we had intended - we may have to go with one larger one over the top of both of them. The vanity and mirrors will come in on Monday, then Chris will do a mock up of where everything would go, and we'll see if we have to go a different route - maybe one larger mirror, or 2 slightly smaller oval mirrors. Lighting will depend on that situation too. I'm frustrated by this situation, as it seems like there should have been some foresight about the lack of wall space/height on someone's part (I'm not excusing myself from fault here), but it's just this kind of thing that makes the process exciting, yes?