This room made it to primer this weekend, woohoo! We filled a 15 cubic yard dumpster demo'ing this room and a 5x8 bathroom. For those of you who are challenged, spacial-relations wise, like me, that is a big dumpster. The pile of junk in the second picture here is just a fraction of that. After many trips up and down the stairs to the dumpster, we were able to re-insulate the room and re-frame one wall. The new wall is on the left side when you walk in the room, not shown here. We put the wall back to its original location (as we can tell by remaining studs and the floor) by removing the closet in this room and the room behind it. That freed up over 2 extra feet of width in this room (now ~14x14). We're turning a nearby storage area into a walk-in closet and that adjacent bedroom into the master bath (bath part happening approx. 1 million days in the future), so losing those closets is OK.
After that, we were finally at the drywall stage. Props to Steve for drywalling help! Drywalling ceilings is WAY easier with 3 people. Apparently Bill and I are much better at taping/mudding than we were in the first rooms, because 3 days after the drywall was all up, the mudding was done. Several hours of sanding later, we were able to prime yesterday. Hopefully we'll have the ceiling painted tomorrow, and maybe the walls later this week if I can decide which shade of blue it should be...
Any bets on if this room will be done by the time we move in late March? Keep in mind that one week is out completely (floors being refinished), plus we're simultaneously working on the upstairs bath and actually have to move all our stuff over. I give it even odds.