gutting and remodeling

these are a bunch of photos of gutting and remodeling my house. it is now about finished and when i get the chance i'll put some pictures up of the finished product.
i'm sorry these photos are all out of order, this blog wouldn't let me rearrange them once i uploaded them.

installing shower tile.


gutted bathroom. its really hard to adequately describe the feeling of apprehension when seeing a room like this. at this stage its hard to imagine it all getting done.

working on kitchen drywall.

jed helping destroy the kitchen

this is looking from the rear bedroom through the middle bedroom to the front bedroom.

this is me underneath the house installing new waterlines.

kitchen cabinets i built.

new kitchen tile

my bedroom. i hate drywall.

new bathroom floor

working on the bathroom floor

kitchen drywall

hallway framing, discussing with my mother the size of my hallway closet.

kitchen, bedroom closet and pantry framing

new bathroom framing and plumbing

yeah for working under the house.

gutting the kitchen....still

did i mention that i hate drywall??? but i love my dog.

ripping out the old kitchen.

new studio

so i have been steadily working on my house for the last 4 and a half months and it is finally habitable enough for me to get to work on my studio. this new studio is probably one-fifth the size of my previous, and the ceilings are only 7 feet tall. i began by having to clear out all the old junk left by the previous owners. this required use of a twnety cubic yard dumpster which i filled. you know that scene in pollock when he breaks open the door to his barn and it is filled with crap? yeah, it was kinda like that. after cleaning all that mess out i built a wall to divide the space for my studio and for my shop stuff(power tools, lawn mower, etc.) then i ran all new wiring, becuase it didn't have what i needed, and what it did have was very shady. i have moved all my equipment in but i have yet to decide the best way to arrange everything, all i know is that i want my wheel to be at the window so i can look out across my land. i've never had a window in a studio before, and it is well worth the size reduction for a little sunlight.