The monolith wall has drywall all over it today. It looks really, really massive now. Peter and I bought two metal geckos to hang on this wall. We thought the two geckos would fill the monolith wall, but we are very wrong!
Looking up from the living room toward the catwalk and the door of the master bedroom, the walls are being stripped as the nail (screw) lines in the drywall have their first coat of plaster.
The drywall in the dining room does not have the nail lines plastered yet, but all the joints of the drywall have been sealed. This sealing is the third step in the Copper Green abatement process (the first was to paint all the Copper Green treated wood with Kilz, the second was to spray foam into all the joints of the framing, and the last is the ERVs).
The same is going on in the kitchen.
Upstairs, the drywall plastering has started also. In the master bedroom, the joints are all sealed and the nail lines are plastered. In the hallway and on the ceiling, the joint sealing and nail plastering has only just begun.
In the master bathroom, the greenboard has a bunch of white strips where, again, the joints are sealed and the nail lines are plastered. It is a zebra room and the strips are growing on me.
The media room was the last room to get drywall. The drywall installers left this room to the last I think because they had to install QuietRock in this room. I am not sure, but I wonder if the QuietRock is more difficult to install. Anyway, the QuietRock will help to muffle the audio component of our media room. Peter has great plans for the audio system in this room, and the QuietRock will let the neighbors sleep while we enjoy our media room and its amazing sound system!
I spun around in this room as well to give you the full view. First, the wall where the video screen will hang. This wall is framed by a door jamb which creates a closet-like inset into the room. We haven't quite decided whether the screen will hang against the wall itself or just inside the door jamb. There is a center speaker which should sit behind the middle of the screen so we will probably hang the screen just inside the door jamb. However, this does create problems with access to the electronics which will be sitting inside the closet area (see photograph below).
To the right, the door of the media room and one wall
Turning to the right again, the back wall of the media room (we had to put windows in the room due to the city codes)
And another turn to the right brings us to the last wall and back to the video screen wall.
An upclose view of the wiring for the speakers, the networking, and the video feeds for the media room with the drywall installed. All this wiring sits inside the closet area (refer to the photograph above; the wiring comes out of the wall behind the ladder and the partial wall that contains the door jamb). So brews the conundrum of where to hang the screen exactly: against the wall is good because it leaves easy access to the electronics, but that doesn't leave any space for the center speaker. Fortunately, this is a challenge I think Peter should undertake....
And what blog entry is complete without a few photographs of the sweeping staircase rotunda! The rotunda is completely drywalled and it too looks much bigger now.
Another dramatic view of the rotunda looking down from the top floor!
