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By Natalie
 Plaster repair should start again any day now! To get ready for that, Harris has been spending his mornings finishing the demo and lots of little projects here and there. The most important one so far is the suit bathroom downstairs which will give Madeline and me a proper bathtub again.
 
The floor joists were existing, but the layers of nasty plywood had to go. Harris also found and fixed a broken pipe while he was down there.
 




 




Putting the ceiling up. We're using tongue and groove wainscot boards for the ceiling in the suite bathroom.

 
Finished!
 View from the doorway. We're going to use the leftover boards to make a boarder at the top. It will be the same height as the window casing/top moulding would have been were it still in place. Once the plaster has been finished here we can install the tile, tub, and toilet and have a beautiful bathroom downstairs.


 Meanwhile...upstairs....

At some point they enclosed the landing to create a storage closet. This storage closet is now gone and its remnants at the dump!
 
View from the former storage closet to the bedroom hallway
 
 
View from the top of the stairs over to where the storage closet used to block the window. Another scale picture using Harris- yes, the windows are that tall.
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