The not so blue room.

One of the best ways Rick and I have been able to tell each other which room we are talking about in our house is by the color of the room. Which, as I type this makes me think of my folks... they have a green room, blue room and a pink room. Ha. But, anyhoo, this is the progress of the not so blue, blue room!

If you click on the pictures, they will take you to an interactive panorama picture!

The "Blue Room" will be my room. Rick and I each have our own rooms to do whatever we want to do with. Basically our offices. Mine is my homework, computer and sewing room. This room is connected to a sunroom.

If you look to the back of the room, center of the picture you can see tall metal beams, in the first picture it looks like a blue wall with a door between, but there were skinny closets behind each wall. We knocked out the closets to give the room another three more feet. The closets seem to be installed as a, "why not" since they had a big air duct at the top of them. 

So long, closets and air duct! We had no problem with ripping out the air duct because it was there to lead into the garden room. By the time the air got to the garden room it was worthless. Which they must have quickly figured out since they installed one of those hotel sort of a/c and heat units under a window. 

This is the view of the room from the garden room, the door to the hallway is to your front left. 

As I began tearing down rotten, moldy, poorly installed drywall Rick was going behind me fixing the original plaster walls. (Please note the kick-ass, giant, handicap accessible bathroom, shower to the right in the picture! Second floor handicap bathroom, what?) As we made our way around we kept finding more and more problems. 

• Black mold!
• A huge drain pipe not flush behind a wall
• Rotten woodwork
• Cement and plaster walls falling apart
• Mismatched woodwork
• Old wiring with deteriorating fabric insulation

        All I wanted to do was rip off the chair rail that was on one wall only. That chair rail quickly snowballed into gutting the whole room! I'm pretty certain it would be easier to build a free standing room from scratch than going through and gutting the thing! I guess you can say we're half way though, we're putting new dry wall up tomorrow. I wanted to keep it all original plaster walls, but that's A LOT of work and time. Different layers of different thicknesses of different plasters with different curing/drying times plus trying to hang something into a solid plaster wall. Ha. So now, we will have fresh not moldy walls with fresh new woodwork without mega thick layers of white paint on it.

Works also in progress...

• Ricks office
• Third floor/ Master bathroom
• Drawing room