Our Insulated Space

I'm going to go a little out of order here, but things are getting exciting at the house so I wanted to post about it. Unfortunately, while we were gone, very little progress was made, so we're about a week behind schedule now. The workers pushed on though, and took advantage of the nice weather last week, getting a lot accomplished. The key was to get the electrical, HVAC and rough framing wrapped up, so that the space could be insulated. That time finally came on Friday...

Here's the north bedroom, with the recessed wall for built in drawers on the left and the crazy closet on the right. The square footage of the closet isn't too bad (the space is 5' wide), but since we have to deal with the sloped roofline, it'll be interesting to see it completely finished.

This is the view from just inside the north closet looking south. The opening on the right wall is the access for the heat pump, with the door to our new bedroom in the center of the space.

Here's one view of our new bedroom. We are really happy with the new ceiling, even though it was a totally unexpected budget buster.

This is Joe's closet, with a recessed cavity for built in drawers.

Here's the shower space. We'll have a bench built in against the back wall, since the ceiling height comes down to just over 5'. We also have recessed niches in the wall to the right for bottles, soap, etc. By buying all of our fixtures online, we managed to save enough in the budget to splurge on body sprays, which you can see roughed in on the left wall.

Here's the view of the rest of the bathroom. The shower is to my immediate right, the toilet room to the left. The tub will be just under the window, and those are storage/linen closets on either side of the window. The vanities will be on the same walls as the closets.

The view of one of the storage closets. I'm standing in front of the window, and you can see the rough plumbing for the shower and one vanity on the right side of the picture.

Sheetrock gets installed this week, and hopefully it doesn't take longer than a week to finish that task. We ordered all of the tile for the bathroom on Friday night and have to figure out how we're going to lay out the tile for the shower space.

In anticipation of moving in soon, I worked on organizing the basement Saturday, and took a full car load of things to Salvation Army. I also brought a car load of stuff back to Ashley's house for Joe and me to go through - old photos, trinkets, etc that were taking up a lot of space. We hadn't gone through most of it since moving into the house, and really needed to evaluate and condense it down, since Joseph's stuff, along with holiday decorations, sports gear and extra kitchen stuff filled the newly built shelves! It's been kinda tedious, but fun and makes it seem like we're getting that much closer to moving back home!