Drywall

The heading is lower case, because I know it's not that exciting.  But what is exciting is the feeling that we're moving on to the finishing stages!  Still, that will probably drag on for another three or four months.

The first coat of mud!  It took us almost a week to finish the first coat, but second and third will go much faster.  We're using a bullnose corner bead, shown loose on the left and installed on that corner.  It just softens the corner a bit and makes drywall look more like plaster

Downstairs, with drywall.  The green, for the uninitiated, is moisture-resistant drywall.  It's going behind our kitchen counters and laundry / utility area.

Rodney, finishing up the first coat

Johnny, starting the second coat

This is the peak where everything comes together.  The ridges and valleys will be covered by wood trim once the sheetrock is finished and painted.

Clearly not drywall, but it's so pretty I couldn't resist.  Locally harvested (and milled by us) eastern red cedar, for the closets.  This is a highly aromatic cedar that keeps moths out of my wool sweaters.  We'll use it for the interior walls of our closets.

Besides being aromatic, it's also beautiful, with swirls of red, pink and purple.  This all came from a local apple orchard where the cedar trees had been planted for insect control.  They were expanding the fruit trees and cutting the cedar.  We had it sawn into planks, then air-dried and surfaced it into finished boards.