I started gutting my new bedroom two weeks ago. Blake and another friend, EJ Swihart, came up and in one morning we managed to gut nearly the entire room.  It was a mess. The room we were gutting was built just after the Civil War so there no insulation and over 100 years of dust inside the walls.  We actually had a neighbor point out to us that in the places that the dust is inches thick, the 1930s(the dust bowl) probably had a major role in the amount of dust.

Before is on the left. After on the right.

Here is a picture of some of mess. Believe it or not this isn't all that bad. At one point the entire floor looked like the right side of this picture.

 

 

We managed to do the nearly complete destruction in just a few hours. We had to get it done so we could go move a play set. 

My dad and I have been working on the room some over the last week and have managed to get more done. We have drywall on the ceiling and the slopes and we have the carpet ripped up.  We are ready to put the floor down but we have to wait because dad wants to put lights in the ceiling in the dining room. That is why there are holes in the floor in the below picture.  We also framed for the new window but have to wait for a nice day to put them in because we have to take the siding off the outside to do that.

If look at the floor you can see the hole in that we are going to use to put lights in the dining room and you can also see the drywall on the ceiling and the slope on the right side of the picture.

 

Here is the new window frame

I'm not really sure why this didn't post but this was a blog post that was supposed to publish a few weeks ago.