Adventures at The Bunny Manse

    Plaster drying on the stairwell and Ed putting the top coat on the walls. Bottom picture is detail work in the suite bathroom downstairs that Harris is finishing today.    

Materials being used View from the doorway   View from the living room. On the stairs you can see the three coats of plaster. The brown/yellow color is the original plaster, the pink is the plaster weld for the scratch coat, and the silver is the top coat of finished plaster. On up the hallway!     This means plaster repair in the first floor is complete! (except the tiny hallway off the hallway into the bathroom)

 What the entryway currently looks like.     The stairs, but with a second false stair built over the stairs     The upstairs landing (view from the stairs)   Before topcoat in the living room....     Our drying green plaster in the living room...    

 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 enclos...