Drywall

When you reach the drywall stage in your project there is a small sigh.  You can instantly feel that your project has reached a critical turning point.  Sealing up 2x4 framed walls strung with electrical wires, shiny copper pipes and foamy insulation, is a giant leap closer to imagining the end result.   The white gypsum boards divide the building's mechanical infrastructure from the finished elements, the critical layer between how a building works and functions and how a building looks and feels. Up until this moment, our guest house looked much more like its original garage space than a conditioned building.  At my last meeting with Joel, I told him that after drywalling was complete I could no longer call it the garage and it needed a proper name.  Many people in this old part of Boulder have original 19th century carriage houses.  Our building was never a coach or carriage house; it was merely a large garage with some good looking carriage doors built sometime in the 1920s.  I am sure it housed some nifty old cars, but it would be a pretentious leap in reclassification to call it a carriage or coach house after we are done.  There are some good names out there.  My friend Amy in Pasadena turned her garage into a light filled art studio.  Now it's called the Studio.  Ours will function as a guest house, occasional short term rental, second office for Grant, studio for art projects, kids hang out, etc...there must be a good name for all that.

Framing before drywall

Start of drywalling