day 13 - all about the drywall and stairs...

The drywallers have moved in... and they are moving fast... in fact, they are still at the house, drywalling, as I write this... they are on a mission and motivated...

... meanwhile, the stairs are slowly moving along... the quality of the work is phenomenal (shout out to Bo and his dad)..

... the treads are red oak and will be stained the same color as the floor... the risers and stringers are poplar, and will be painted... Sherwin Williams Dover White, of course!

Impressive detailing...

I wish we could afford to have them completely refinish the wood paneling and newel post... however, the cost was astronomical... So, instead, we are just having them sand the wood paneling down a bit, so that we can paint the wood, nice and smooth... Sherwin Williams Dover White... same as the risers and stringers...

 ... the newel post is posing quite a challenge though... originally, our plan was to sand it down as well, and repaint it... However, in demolishing the stair, which included the handrail and fascia for the base (both unsalvagable), the newel post lost bits and pieces of itself... and to restore it is sadly out of our budget...

 ... since it is an integral piece of the wood paneling, it's not going anywhere... So, the new plan is to encase it in red oak and construct a newel post around the original... we'll see how that creative endeavor goes...

Our other little creative endeavor is a sistered joist/beam that straddles both the dining room and living room. The ceiling in the dining room is a good 12" to 18" or so lower than the living room... alas, the now visible joist/beam, which previously had been nicely concealed in the ceiling. The drywall guys took it upon themselves to detail how the drywall wraps the beam/beam expression in the living room...

... um, yeah, no.