Now that Trevor and Rhys have their own rooms, we're expanding the laundry room into the boys' old room. I must say there is something very therapeutic about demolition projects. The kids enjoyed watching me put my fist through the wall a few times (made sure I knew where the studs were first). They also had fun helping me pull the drywall off, which was when we discovered it was only glued to the studs. I'm surprised the wall was intact on its own because many of the nails they put in to hold the studs in place weren't really attached to anything. More quality workmanship on the part of the previous owners.
It occurred to me this morning that I should've taken some 'before' pictures, but most of you have already seen the boys' room and can appreciate the 'after' pictures.
Eventually, the doorway on the left will be filled in and there will be a shelf on the wall under the window... In the corner, you can see the bottom sheet of drywall still intact because, oh yah... it was GLUED to the studs. If Rhys hadn't been out shopping with Dawn at the time, I would've let him just run through the wall.
Our good friend Jesse Salmon helped me move all the wiring off the wall a couple of weeks ago so I wouldn't fry myself when I got to this stage.
Now we'll have room for folding tables, laundry baskets, two people at the same time... the little things.
4 comments:
It will be wonderful to have more space in there! Is it just going to be the laundry room? or are you using some of it as storage too?
I think it will be storage too, the 'everything in totes and labled so it's out of my way' storage=)
No WAY! Two people in a laundry room at once? What ever will you do with yourselves and all that space?
hehehehehe;-)
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