Step 12: Drywall

September 2018

After insulation comes the drywall... It's starting to look like a real house instead of just an old fishing cabin!!


LIVING/DINING ROOM

standing where the new "front door" is now, looking towards where the addition is now




same room from the other direction



the end of that same room by the stairs, where the new front door is



The right wall of the living room, with the opening to the new downstairs master bedroom.
In the first picture, the wall on the right was the old bathroom. In the third picture, that has been moved back into what was bedroom #1 to make the master suite.


this picture is taken more straight on, facing the new master suite



this angle is kind of between the other two - that opening is in line with the stairs and creates a new very tiny hallway between the master suite and the living room, allowing for an entrance into the bathroom from the living room or from the master bedroom, behind the stairs, where the water heater is became a hall closet.


standing in the kitchen addition looking into that same room




DOWNSTAIRS MASTER BEDROOM

where the door became a window



where bedroom #1 (on the other side of the wall below) became the master closet and bathroom


note the multiple entrances to the bathroom so you can enter from the living room or bedroom


the new very tiny hallway closet created by the entrance to the new master bedroom


Some of the Scriptures can still be seen in the doorways




OFFICE/DEN





NEW ADDITION


KITCHEN

standing in living/dining room looking into the kitchen


looking towards the lake (living/dining on your right)


looking towards the mudroom (living/dining on your left)



MUDROOM




THE STAIRS

This area has never had walls, only studs, since it was built in the 80s, so this looks soooo different. No lie, below is how it has looked since 1986. For 32 years.



BEFORE / AFTER




UPSTAIRS

These rooms have NEVER had walls! My grandpa put this second story addition on in 1986, but never put actual walls in, just studs. We kids just camped out in here with no walls, no big deal. If anyone needed to change, they just went in the bathrooms, which were walled like normal. That's how it was for 32 years! Until now!

BOYS' ROOM




GIRL'S ROOM



UPSTAIRS MASTER BEDROOM

 

we added a closet at the far end and a closet on the right foreground and opened up that doorway at the end to make a better entrance to the attic. The picture below is to help you see where the new closet is on the right. 


this is a better angle to see the whole room, that right closet isn't in the way


It's starting to look like a real house, y'all! Not just a cabin. We not only have central heat and air and insulation, WE HAVE WALLS!!!


NEXT: Step 13: Hurricane Prep


























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