Drywall

Nothing starts to make you realize that a project is truly happening like drywall.

 

For most of us, you can measure things out, do drawings, put tape on the floor – and all of that is essential so you can start to conceptualize what’s happening, but until the studs go in and the sheetrock starts to go onto the walls, you can’t tell a whole lot about what’s happening.

 

We started seeing major differences when the  new closet was formed in, and realized, “Hey, the bedroom really didn’t shrink that much.  We just took all the dead space and put it in one place and made it useful.”  It works both ways, though, because then you realize that the new closet isn’t that huge expanse that you thought it would be.

 

It’s big and will be wonderful – but it’s not unlimited space.  Organization will help, though, and the master bedroom will now have “his” and “hers” closets which, stereotypically, puts the “hers” more than twice as big as the “his”.

 

Similarly, it’s a lot easier to visualize the bathrooms once walls start going up.  What looked to be an enormous shower turns out to be generous, but not oversized.  They have blissfully high ceilings (which is important when the orthopedist says that your son will top out at about 6’7”) with the shower head actually up close to the ceiling, so nobody has to duck to wash their hair.

 

There are also “nooks” built into the shower to hold shampoo and soap and all the accoutrements that seem to collect in the shower so there will no longer be any need for those spring loaded metal units that fit in the corner to spread rust stains all over.