The kitchen starts to take real shape with the sheetrock in place. Bud the builder is continuing to help with this work.

I had the sheetrock delivered on a friday and stored it in the shed. It rained all that weekend and Bud was afraid that the rock had soaked up too much moisture to hang on the ceiling but as it turned out, the stuff remained dry.

Through the window note the back of Pete's truck. This little red pickup has been the amateur builder's savior. Ramon and I have clocked a few miles bouncing around in the cab over the frost-heaved roads of the upper valley in search of shower stalls, insulation, electrical supplies, and most recently, as evidenced by the PVC pipe sticking out the back, plumbing supplies; not to mention the interminable trips to the dump. Muchas gracias Pedro.

Speaking of plumbing... Here's the newly modified vent stack. Two new 'T' connections provide for the upstairs bathroom and the kitchen sink. Previously these had their own vents that went out the side of the house but with the upstairs bathroom reconfigured, and the kitchen plumbing, well, soon to be completely rebuilt, I had to fit these into the main stack that's going out through the roof.

Snaking around the old beams, the new kitchen vent finds its way out from the main house to the ell.

There's alot of plumbing work to be done, and for amateur builder man, it's slow going. Hey, if worse comes to worse we can always rent a porta-san. (Just kidding honey.)

The new downstairs shower is going in by stages. The blue styrofoam board serves as soundproofing between the bathroom and kitchen/dining room. It's recycled from the stuff I used around the foundation perimeter last fall (see Introduction).

The east room, as we've taken to calling one of the small downstairs rooms, as seen with new sheetrock. The ceiling will remain exposed.

We picked up that designer light fixture in SOHO on our last trip to NYC. Very post-deconstructionist. It came with rubber boots you slip on before pulling the switch.

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