Walls - walls - walls!!

In my last post - I titled it snowing inside because I thought the insulation looked like snow... or really pillows in the walls, but little did I realize, that now as the drywall goes up - it actually does look like it is snowing inside with all the white dust --- EVERYWHERE! In the past 2 days - there has been a total transformation of the house.... amazing how different it looks with walls now. Friday they finally started hanging dry wall and yesterday - they had a double crew who worked all day and now for the most part, the dry wall has been hung. They will finish up early in the week and begin to tape and float the walls. We just got the "go ahead" to start choosing interior paint colors.... wow - moving along! Cannot believe we are finally getting to a point, where while we have a ton of finish work to go, but the end is in sight and this house will actually become our HOME!!!

When we stopped by the house today - E was a little confused and was looking for her pink wood....luckily, there still is some.... however, once she found a broom and could begin "schweeping" inside, she was happy. Upstairs, Brian was inspecting things and everything he did - she copied, it was quite cute!! Brian and I talked about the feel of the rooms, and overall, while the ceilings are low (we knew that - it is an older house) - the rooms feel open and we are happy with the layout of the house... after all, the layout we ended up going with was one that the two of us came up with together!

Here are some pics of all the progress from the past 2 days - I think you will agree, the house looks very different.

Front half of the house - lots of light coming in from all the windows and a very open feel:

The breakfast room/living room.... and in the corner little miss e "schweeping" the house...

Hard to tell what this is - but it is the opening in the foyer of the house - while the picture does not do it justice - it really is a very cool space and gives the house such an open feel. Thrilled we decided to do this:

View from the front entry, up to my "office" space - you will notice we kept the shiplap which was original in the 1939 portion of the house. There will be a banister, but this small space will be great for me to work in...I love the way it looks from below and also the character of the shiplap:

I feel like I often us a picture of the kitchen as a benchmark of the progress on everything - once again, this space has been transformed with the dry wall up.

Back of the house - den/play room off the kitchen:

E running in to check out her new room with the walls up. I truly love the way her room came out - her closet is really big (thank goodness because the kid has a lot of clothes). She has a nook which will be for reading/playing, book shelves (to finally be able to display all her dollies) and overall - just a really cool feel to the room:

E's book shelves and door to the jack and jill bathroom:

Hiding in the corner of the "nook" in her room:

Brian and E checking things out in bedroom 3:

Inspecting all the wires (because Brian was doing it - she literally went up to every box in the house and inspected it to check them out) -- very good helper:

Hallway from 2 secondary bedroom - looking down to master bedroom -- the french door goes out to the balcony:

E checking out the master bedroom:

Couldn't be happier with the way our bedroom turned out... it feels so open and the decision to vault the ceiling really was a worthwhile one:

Opposite side of our room - we decided to keep the built-in and will clean it up, but it is a nice use of the space and once the pink knobs are gone and it is repainted, I think it will look great:

Master bathroom:

And silly E checking out the shower -- and while in there she decided to was her hair:

So - as you can tell, there has finally been a ton of progress at the house and it is starting to look closer to finished. Will keep you posted as things continue to change!!!