photo: marjorie o'brien
I spent the last five days in a postmodern fugue of home deconstruction converting the loft overlooking our living room into a full fledged bedroom/nursery. We most likely have less than six weeks before the chap makes his appearance and I'd like the baby space to be in order before he arrives. I'll be taping, floating and sanding most evenings this week. I'm hoping to have the room nursery-ified by Monday, July 5th.
Deconstruction included removal of the single pane privacy glass near the ceiling on the east side of the house. The sheets were approximately 7' x 3' and have been replaced with framing, insulation, sheetrock, wafer board and tar paper. Siding will follow soon. Well, as soon as I get the remaining 23 sheets of wafer board installed and off the stack of siding. The new arrangement will hopefully reduce our heating and cooling bills a bit and permit sleeping in without going blind from the sun cresting the neighbor's roof.
I've uploaded some of the in process photos.