The four most expensive words in construction = while-you're-at-it!

The plasterer will begin tomorrow (monday), so we spent the weekend hanging drywall (yay for us!)

a view of the kitchen... 

the plasterer is also going to plaster over the textured ceiling in the living room, dining room, pantry and hall.

the real windows...and the "window" to the living room!

a view towards the pantry- and the hall niche where we will install built-in shelving

the new Pella door & window that we installed in the pantry

another view of the hall- the shelves will be on the left there between those wing-like walls.

and we decided to tear out the wood panelling in the living room and install new drywall "while we're at it"!!!  but the old fake beams will have to stay for now- hopefully they will look better when painted!