Hello Again. Welcome to Part II. We might have edited the first post while you were away, so if you haven't just come from there, it might be worth reviewing before starting into Part II. Otherwise you might miss some riveting shots. If you are up to date, please continue. :)
Norm: Here we see Bob cutting out a piece of drywall. I think it is safe to say we ruined the lovely green carpeting in the living room by using it as a staging area. I know I personally left a few snags with my saw.
Norm: Here is a close up of my corner. I'm so proud! It's ready for spackle.
Norm: The ceiling is also ready for spackle.
Norm: Another view of Bob cutting drywall with our new half wall in the background. Keep up the good work, Bob!
Norm: Here's a cool picture as I make my way around the corner with spackle. The left half is finished and I'm headed 'round the mountain.
Norm: More of me spackling the newly repaired drywall. I will be a pro at this before the day is out.
Norm: Here is a shot of the intricate drywall patch cut by Bob. It was noteworthy, so it got its own picture.
Norm: More of me. Very exciting.
Norm: Bob is the best. After weekends of nothing but the sighs of frustration and scratch of drywall saws to break the silence, he surprised me by coming home from a trip to Lowes for yet another can of knockdown texture with this little beauty. She doesn't look like much, but she certainly knows how to make the time pass much faster. And I can now say, with complete authority, that Billy Jean is NOT my love. She's just some girl...
Norm: The ceiling has been spackled and awaits sanding and primer.
Norm: Here is a view of the patched half wall. It is now solid, secure, and ready for primer and paint. If there was ever any doubt in our ability to knock down and reconstruct the wall, it has been dispelled. We rocked it.
Norm: Here's a shot of me spackling Bob's drywall patch late into the night. You can see we have long since lost the daylight.
Norm: This picture requires a little audience participation. To view accurately, please turn your head 90 degrees to the right. Or is it left. I'm not actually sure it matters. You're seeing another view of the ceilling here. In case one wasn't enough.
Norm: I would like to say the drywall dust on the camera lens was an artistic interpretation of how we felt by the end of the day -- as though our whole lives would be forever viewed in a haze of drywall dust. In actuality, I think I just left the lens open while we were sanding and then wiped it on my dust covered shirt. In any case, here is the fully patched kitchen, ready for primer.
Norm: Another view of the patched kitchen. It doesn't look like much, but it sure FEELS like progress.
Norm: The beautiful, secure half wall. A work of art!
Norm: Not quite as pretty from this side. But just wait...
Norm: Here Bob ascends the ladder to begin the primer journey on the ceiling. It turns out that painting a 12 ft slanted ceiling is not really that much more fun than patching drywall.
Norm: So beautiful! I know I'm warped at this point, but I could stare at this wall all day and never get tired of admiring its perfection. I think it's because deep down I had my doubts we would really get it put back together. I am so relieved I was wrong! I am ashamed for doubting the Master Craftsman himself.
Norm: Bob continues to paint the ceiling. At least there is a lot of light and ventilation.
Not much going on here except a view from the "lounge" into the backyard. As you can see we are still waiting on the finish work to begin.
Pretty yellow walls. Ugly vertical blinds
Our bright and sunny bar/kitchen
I sooo wish laying tile was as easy as pointing at the floor, whispering a few magic spell words and having it all just be done. "FLOORUS DO-IS YOURSEULFUS" Here we have laid out our test pattern on the floor.
Hmmm... 2008, A House Oddesy?
Bob mixing thinset. Wow that stuff is awful. Very hard on the skin. "Now I'll never be a teen hand model."
A pretty straight and level patch . Note the cool running pattern we went with to break up typical tile square pattern. A quarter of the job well done at this point.
Looks like a good stopping point for the night. Sweet dreams tile. I love you.
Not exactally sure what's going on here. It kind of looks like Bob is trying to light ants on fire with a magnifying glass. Die Ants Die!
After Bob's tile meltdown, Norm put the thinset on her back and litterally tiled the rest of the kitchen all by herself. What a trouper! MALIBU!
Finally the tile is laid, grouted, cleaned and polished. Check out the awesome cabinets and layout we've got going on. The kitchen that seems so big for so long now doens't seem quite big enough. But we left a ton of room around the island for walking and menuvering past each . It will be a sad day when we are both trying to occupy the same spot at the same time as we designed to prevent against that. 
