Finding FOUND: Workdays 9 and 10 "Bertha"

The work has been monumental the past two days. So much so that I couldn't even muster up two brain cells to rub together last night to post to the blog. I'll make it up in tonight's post, I promise.

First and foremost we are the bearers of a beautifully sanded floor, done entirely by our devoted Miss Sandy. She not only finagled the use of the sander (aka "Bertha") for free, she also manhandled her into submission and did the entire job by herself.

As if this weren't enough, she showed up at 5:30 am so she could complete the job in time to get home and make breakfast for a house full of guests. I am in awe.

Today it was all hands on deck including Sandy's best guy Pat.

He made short work of taping and drywalling the corners
and has the best knife work of us all. Thank you Pat!

Dan was at work taming the dry wall at the corners

while Ellen was tackling the spackling in the back room.

Ken spent a lot of time today not only making more dust,

but sweeping it!

It's a lot of floor to sweep let me tell ya!

Yesterday we (Ken and I) started priming the ugly brown paneling. We managed to get the entryway mostly done and finished it today. It looks good (if I do say so myself) and not just a little bit good, it looks like something we might've even picked out for ourselves on purpose. After the color is on it's going to shine.

There is paneling in the front entryway,

in the first booth on the left,

and in two other rooms in the front part of the space.
Sandy and I finished priming the larger room down at the far
end of the front space and tomorrow she'll finish up the rest.

There is still the little bit of paneling to deal with in tiny little hallway between the quonset hut and front room. We're trying to sway our one-man design team (aka Bill) away from the idea of lining the walls in faux fur...suggestions anyone?

The place is really starting to look sharp!

Ken's friend Steve came by in the afternoon for a consult on all the wires sticking out of the walls and ceiling (remnants from the building's former tenants). After getting the go-ahead Ken got right to work demolishing what wasn't needed.

Sadly I missed him in action. Not wanting to miss his
moment of demo glory, I asked him to re-enact it.

As you can see I had mixed success...

Okay, let's try that again. Take two...

Oh well, nice idea, poor execution on my part.
Better stick to the day job.

How 'bout a still shot?

Okay, this I can handle!

We thought we were totally done with wall demo until Ken and I decided we wanted one of our booths to be in the spot right next to the room we'd designated as an office. This decision of course led to more demo. Not to worry, the guys were starting to get a little antsy with nothing to destroy and the deed was accomplished in an hour by the trusty team of Marnie and Bill! We may or may not be done with demo...we'll just have to wait and see.

Here's the former wall coming down,