It’s happening! Drywall is happening! This feels at once amazing and hard- we are so close to a really new and different way of living in our home, and our current situation is less than optimal.

Aside from the considerable dust (think Burning Man in your home), we have had to disconnect the water and sewer from our old bathroom and kitchen fixtures because those lines don’t exist in the future. The new kitchen is downstairs, and the old kitchen becomes a bathroom with a different configuration. Thankfully, the toilet is still functional because it is where it will be– that’s why it has been in our kitchen for a few years. Additionally, the outlets don’t work and the oven and stove have been disconnected.

We have parked our trailer, given to us many years ago for just this purpose (shout out to LoLo and Grover!! You’re the best!), at the end of our driveway and are cooking and cleaning out there, taking showers in the tiny trailer shower.

We have had to pull our storage items into our living spaces because we are drywalling the closets and we gave Huck our closet-bed when I moved out.

It’s just a big crazy mess.

But! On the other side of this mess is a brand new kitchen, all waiting in Morgan’s shop for installation. We bought our paint (thanks to Aly for the guidance) and are ready to go when they are done mudding and taping. We can move our living room down there once the kitchen is built, and start living in our giant room. This is going to be soooooooo great!!

It’s not the end of our project by any means, we still have to build that new bathroom upstairs and the laundry room that goes in the hallway, plus a shed/deck addition to the shop… but moving into the downstairs will be the realization of a big part of this dream. We are really really excited.

Here are some images from the yard, a lush sanctuary from the madness: