nearly two months in and it's looking livable

kitchen gets laid out, bar wall built, cabinets ready to set.

















Prep-Coat on all walls and ceilings...taking forever but building nice delts.

















Interior doors are officially hung, need to be finished.
This is a view into bathroom with prep-coat on walls and plaster repair on exterior adobe wall. Notice nice light from Solatube (in vaulted ceiling above doorway).


















Looking up at Solatube. 10" with diffusor is super bright daylight! Very nice. Thanks, Daylighting Solutions!


















Shiny sealed hardwoods.

















Starting to look like something one could live in... yay!

prep coat is next

new plaster restores old adobe interior walls.


















platering.


















prep for interior plastering.


















Jose, the master plaster(er)


















wet plaster.



















I'm in the attic running security wiring.


















Cleaning hardwoods after sheetrocking. Bad scheduling.


















Yay! Hardwoods get sealed, with all their 80+ years of character.

stucco color coat

Construction Waste Management. Diverted from landfill.



















Synthetic (Dryvit StucCoat) Stucco Color Coat is applied; it's more durable and water-resistant than standard stucco and allows for an integral color; I chose Harristone forthe color: a modern gray with faint brown and cool tones.


















Stucco color coat at front door.



















Stucco color on west and north walls.


















Stucco color coat at front porch at dusk.

sheetrocking

almost done 'rocking. sheet rocking, that is.
















holy mole. looking more like a casa and less of a skeleton.






Some plaster goes up while other comes down. I know, scheduling is a little off. This was water damage plaster over adobe in bathroom.

Starting to look like a livable house!

Beer Guard Dog.













Seriously, don't come any closer!


















solid pine doors

















Me with doors. Getting ready to hang them.

















The floors are ready for sealant.


















The first piece of gypboard is hung!


















The ceilings halfway covered in gypboard... glad I hired pros to hang it on the cathedral ceilings!

productive birthday weekend

The recycled blue-jeans cotton batt insulation in interior walls for acoustic properties.

Insulation begins! Formaldehyde-free. R38 in my ceilings.

I pulled out a birdnest from the adobe wall joints, including skeleton of mama bird and two eggs intact.



































Green Materials: recycled blue jeans cotton-batt insulation. no VOCs. great acoustical properties. Awesome stuff!














Prepping floors for refinishing... very worried about what will be revealed.



















crackhead bum piss, mouse and cockroach nasties, etc scraped out by hand of each board. omg.

















ahhh, floor patching.... good times.

































this is supposed to show how covered in sawdust i am. i just look tired.






























Floor Refinishing Begins! Sanding with coarsest grain possible.



















Look what's beginning to be revealed...















Stripping and Sanding (never ending)... sanding out the years of abuse to the red oak floors.



















My view on life for two days. including my 25th birthday.



















Two Tone Brown x2.


















brown dog and demo pile.


The perfect end to a hard day. Marble microBrewery, just a few short blocks from the casa.

...more updates...

Mariessa and I doing some framing.

Electrical is just about done, ready for inspection today.

The exterior insulation I added to the adobe walls to increase the R value by about 10

New scratch coat of stucco.

Replacing water-damaged floor joists in bathroom. (Don't worry, Patricia, I used joist hangers.)

New bathroom and closet sub flooring.

Stripped and demo'd kitchen floor to subflooring.




















Saving and reclaiming existing building materials: carefully prying up old hardwoods to use for repairs elsewhere in casa.