construction begins!

We all got together yesterday to see the space. The walls were going up, so the rest of us busied ourselves with cleaning.

Bedroom 2 is coming together.

Don't get me wrong, wall carpeting has that lovely 1970s church basement charm and everything, but it's not really right for bedroom 1.

Impromptu workspace and an eight-foot privacy wall between the living area and the gallery space.

Privacy wall. This will be the kitchen if we can figure out a fixture layout that works. Why is it tough to find room for a fridge in a 5000-square foot space? I don't know, but we found a way to make it a problem. Go team.

Walls going up in bedroom 2. If you look in the bottom right corner between the beams - that's a hole in the ground that goes straight through to the mirrored half of the basement. The landlord's original plan was to put a staircase in there, but we're building a hall to bedoom 1 instead. So there was a huge gaping hole in the floor all day:

Mulling around and plotting.