New Bedroom Decisions Made, Bathroom Reconstruction Beginning

      Things are moving along, and the new floorplan is certainly looking promising. Covering the awful brown of the old sheet rock, has been a big visual improvement. The one wall that is remaining intact has been covered with new wallboard and Spackle. Essentially that and reworked moldings are all that is going to be changed on this wall.

      Decisions have been made about the ceiling discussed in the last posting. It has been established, that the ceiling can not be torn out to expose the joists and floor boards above.  I am disappointed but resigned to the fact that there are design limitations, and this is one of them. The ceiling boards conceal multiple wires and pipes. If that it removed, all the wires and pipes would have to be re-run again in order to conceal them somehow, adding much to the cost of the project. The ceiling stays.

Division of space, bedroom beige floor in foreground,
 utility room on left with checkered floor, bath on right 

The rebuilding of the bathroom space has commenced. That can be seen on the right in the photo above. Studs have been installed for new bathroom walls. The finished space will be approximately 4' x 10'. Seeing the studs in place establishing concrete room space, makes it much easier to visualize the finished room. It is certainly not big, but not tiny either. A few more feet either way would be nice, but that is not possible because we are redoing existing space that is already under roof .  We can not expand our living space, we are simply rearranging it to suit our twenty-first century needs.


Seeing the structure has validated our floor plan decisions. Space division is turning our nicely. Now all we have to do and live through the renovations!

bedroom space being worked 

Voila! the bathroom to be