It's in and it works!

The picture may be a little grainy but below is photographic proof that we managed to get our bedroom door installed today! We finished framing it up this morning and by lunch we were jamming shims all over the place and hammering nails into the jambs... and before you know it we had a door! And it only took us one try! We were waiting for it to fall out all afternoon or to get stuck closed or something - but it didn't!

We also almost finished all of the drywalling. A few more small pieces here and there and we will be ready to tape and mud.

It's getting door-ier in here!

This is from Monday. I played hooky from work. Grace had the day off too and so we worked on the addition some more. This view is from inside the addition. I almost finished framing the rough opening for the door today. (I also rewired the outlet that would have been in the middle of the doorway. It's now safely out of the way about three feet to the left.)

Tonight, after scouring through the inventory at the ReStore (recycled building materials) and the Buyer's Market (surplus building materials), we picked up a door at Home Depot . We hope to have the door hung by tomorrow.

Doorway (ish...)

See that small section of weather-beaten Tyvek pictured below? That poor piece of Tyvek has been waiting for almost a year to be put to good house-wrapping use. During that year it was buffeted by winds, wrapped up and nailed to the wall, urinated on by dogs and suffered various other indignities. Why was it waiting you ask? It was waiting because until today the small section of wall that it was supposed to cover did not exist. Today that wall came to be. This was the opening by which we have accessed the addition ever since the rest of the walls have gone up. Today we put up three studs, hammered some sheathing on, and wrapped it up. No more can we access the addition via the front porch. How do we get into the addition you ask? Read on, MacDuff...
Witness below. It is a hole cut through the wall of the entryway of our house. When you look through that hole you can see part of my head and part of Grace. That's right; this opening is the small beginning of a doorway into the addition from our house. It will eventually be enlarged to more door-like proportions but it's exciting to get a bit of an idea what things will look like.

One snag (there's always a snag). See just to the bottom left of the "doorway"? That's an outlet. It would have ended up in the middle of our doorway if we continued according to plan. Given the options of having an electrical outlet in the middle of our bedroom door or crawling under the house to reroute some wiring, we opted for the latter and this will be taken care of in due time.

Drywall

We passed our insulation inspection on Monday. Yay!

Today Grace and the kids had the day off (Veterans' Day) and so they began to drywall the walls. Actually Grace didn't have to do too much other than direct traffic since Jesse supplied two workers. Thanks, Austin and Kyle-from-Ohio! They ended up getting quite a bit done by the time I got home from work and then Grace and Paige hung a few more sheets tonight. It's probably about half done so we are well on our way!

Here's a fake action shot of Kyle-from-Ohio, Jesse and Austin.