First, we took 5 feet out of the living room..
Dad - Master Carpenter (Dennis Frazier)
A few days later.. we've also taken 3 feet out of the bedroom, tore out the original wall, and ripped up the carpet in the new space in-between... (and some of the outside wall drywall too)
The master bedroom, with all the stuff we needed to find space for piled up.. Also you can see the new outlet boxes in the soon to be wall....
Pulling wire.. note the "groove" running from the floor up through the ceiling where the original wall used to be.
A closeup of the outside wall, where we tied the power into the new walls off existing outlets
The "groove" where the old wall lived...
opposite direction
tin plating over holes we made in the floor, moving the electrical wiring to it's new location.
Electrical tape over the contacts for safety during construction
Sheet-rock in the living room, before taping and plaster
More "rock" going up. Also the new bedroom door before it's installed...
Computer room wall... with rock and outlets
looking into the living room..
Dad cutting outlet holes in yet more sheet-rock
The new window in place, and tape and plaster on the walls.
Inspecting for rough spots in the plaster...
The new wall in the living room.
Same wall, with texture and paint applied.
Amazing what you can do with a reciprocating saw...
Door into the bedroom
Computer Room, looking into the Living Room
Just needs the ceiling fan...
Ta da...
Storage above the doors
Next, we took 2 sheets of cabinet grade plywood and made a desk and shelves out of it.
Trying to decide where things will go... (check back in a few weeks when we really get moved in for more photos).