Take it Out!!
We've decided what to do with the wall between the office and the bedroom. Take it out! We've decided what to do with the hallway wall. Take it out! Yesterday I took out the hall way closet. We've decided what to do with the bathroom. Make it bigger!
We are going to combine our office/living room/bedroom/hallway into one large space with the woodstove (eventually kiva fireplace) front and center. None of the walls we're taking out are bearing walls. In the original adobe this was all one big space. We will divide the use areas with partial walls/huge arched openings, stepped walls, and adobe benches can curve around spaces as well. (actually, we’ll probably use straw-bale construction for all the indoor, decorative stuff) .We'll leave it open but separate visually with these quintessential southwestern elements.
Being the big fan of curtaining off areas, I'll include a couple wall to wall drapes to let down when we really, really want to separate the areas (like if someone is watching TV and someone is sleeping as is frequently the case—or if one needs to do office work with a client and the bedroom shouldn’t be apparent). Solves our wicked problem about how to provide doorways to all those awkward spaces we didn't want separate anyhow. We’re both happy and ha, ha, I get to knock out a couple more walls!
Today I got paint on the entire backside of the house. And this evening a friend stopped by with a paint sprayer she is lending me, oh joy! Leonardo got the barnwood trim up in the peak on the front of the house. I really wanted to take out a wall too but was spent by early evening. The nice thing is we can call it a day when we’ve had enough. We’ve promised not to work ourselves too hard although it is hard not to! We just want to keep going and going and going.
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