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Downstairs, the air return is moved from the middle of the entryway floor (weird!) to under the staircase. Upstairs, a weird area was patched with reclaimed heart pine.

The floors were refinished last week, and they look great! We left both the oak downstairs and the heart pine upstairs unstained. The pine especially is fabulous, better than I expected! Some before and after shots in this and the next few posts.

I swear this color is a pale aqua that is coming across very poorly in this light. Everything else in the room will be white and chrome (with black accents in the white tile). We only need to install tile, trim, sink, toilet, tub (after cleaning/reglazing), mirror, shelves, and this will be a working bathroom. Oh yeah, and a door. Talk to me again in a month. :)

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! Dr