More temporary walls

Seb has become very good at putting up drywall...oh yeah and ripping it down too. This is what we call 'round these parts "the temporary wall." Allow me to translate: homeowners...wait I mean homeowner's wife find that it's cold, or she need privacy, or she finds a crumbly stone wall creates far too much dust and voila! suddenly we have an instant wall. Kind of magic like.

Well, a new problem created the need for a temporary wall. He's known to be very noisy himself but won't tolerate even so much as a peep from the rest of the family. Baby S now has a temporary-walled bedroom. It's our first "walled" bedroom in this house and we're mighty proud even though its life span is going to prove to be quite short.

We aren't very wall happy people. We're always the ones nudging each other at other people's houses and whispering "if only they'd tear out that kitchen wall and join it to that family room..." or "that bathroom could be bigger you know." After all, we tore out part of a bearing wall in a 500 year old house, so yes we're quite serious about open spaces. The placement of baby S's bedroom in our coveted mezzanine office is merely temporary. This solution, ever so painful to our renovation hearts, has saved our sanity. Point blank.

Of course now we are sleeping in the living room under the stairs. Maybe it's not very glamourous but we'll have a fireplace in our bedroom this winter. Can you you say that?


Sure you can see the husband's feet but can you spot the cat tail?


Some more cherished unfinished drywall memories for baby S.


Elmo seems cool about it all.


Here is the room before we put the wall up. Our bed is sticking out there you see. Now we have a hallway in front of the staircase, ... uh temporarily of course.