Normandy Park Restoration

Finished up enough of the drywall last night that I have have a fully usable theater: And, I have the office side facing the family room done: Unfortunately I ran out of drywall screws so I wasn't able to put the final panel up on the stairwell, but this at least finally gives me a real perspective for the size of each room.  It looks like they will work out very well, however that may have to wait until I get some furniture in there to know for sure, but that won't be for a while. The original landing room, which you can see here, was very small and unusable:  The original family room, shown here: was very long and skinny, and I was worried that I might still have that issue with the new layout, but by shortening the landing room, it's made the rooms much more livable.

Non-stop rain this weekend, which discouraged me from doing much drywall, but finally on Sunday I got sick of waiting and ran down and threw some drywall on top of the wagon, put some plastic on it and headed home.  About 6 sheets is the maximum that I'm willing to put on top of the car.  I got some water resistant (blue) and normal drywall (white).  The water resistant stuff is used in the basement, with the normal stuff upstairs. I was able to get the island wall facing the living room, and one backside sheet installed, which you can see here.  This finally gives some feel for what the final kitchen space will look like. Then, in the basement theater, I was able to get the entire back wall drywalled. The black things leaning on the wall are the sound traps for the theater.  I should have time during the week to grab a few more sheets of drywall so that I can finish doing the theater room over Christmas.

Got a free sofa from a coworker.  I will serve as a temporary sofa until I finish more of the renovation.  The current red one will get sent down into the theater once I finish the drywall down there.

Got the wall mounts for the in-wall speakers done.  This is only a temporary mounting, as I'll need to get the drywall on before I can complete the install.

Needed to do some cleanup work.  Giving the self-leveling suspension in the wagon a workout. Also finally put some insulation in the walls where it had none, and put some more peg board in the bike room.