Saved the best for last...drywall is done!

This is when things started to get real. We've used Tino and his crew for drywall before, when Curt finished the basement in our last house about three years ago. He hung all that drywall himself but Tino finished and textured it. Tino's guys have been at our house for about three weeks and they finished the texturing today. They have been there on the last few weekends when we have been working and they are polite, don't speak any English and play extremely loud but cheerful music. They brought two microwaves and a plug-in hot plate to our house, and one of the microwaves in the basement is filled with rocks. Not sure why. Our porta potty has taken a hit with all the extra use but this is probably our last weekend dealing with that...hallelujah. $23,000 later, we have real walls!

This guy walked down our stairs on those stilts more smoothly than I do on my own two feet 

No big deal

Here you can see they started adding the hand-scraped texture 

Just starting the texture in the kitchen...and those are the bases for our cabinets! 

Just taped, not textured yet

The wall on the upper far right is where Curt will put a future door to this loft/library area