Well honey, here's the closet you wanted...

There was some sort of soft deadline about moving upstairs. Something to do with someone's birthday. I can't quite remember whether it was this year or next. Let me check my PalmPilot. Hmmm the batteries are dead...

...this gives you some idea of the framing work for the new upstairs layout. Two of the old partition walls survived but if I was to do it over, I would have removed those too. It's just easier dealing with new framing instead of trying to connect the new to the old. Back when I decided to keep those old walls, I was seriously tired of throwing out pieces of the sweet old house.

Ramon's loft space above his bedroom is just big enough to be a sleeping space or for marathon Monopoly games.

The amount of lumber and work that went into framing the upstairs was an eye opener. I've certainly made my share of mistakes. Many times it's two steps forward, one step back. I often mention to people that I feel like I'm doing two renovations simultaneously.

Here you can see that the plumber thoughtlessly left a mess that the carpenter had to keep stepping over.

This is the upstairs landing looking toward the Master Bedroom.