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I hate the process of moving. Boxing up shit I should have thrown away, cleaning, carrying furniture, figuring out who has a truck big enough to move the larger things, loose ends, making a place feel comfortable, and everything else. This time I had the bonus of an ex-roommate who made things even more terrible.

That aside, the place I moved to had some plans in store for it. The place is a nice two bedroom townhouse in Atascadero, California, a few miles from my office. A friend of mine bought it, and the location was perfect so I agreed to move in. The two bedrooms are the same, except mirrored. The main problem with the bedrooms is that the door to the closet was put in the bathroom, and the closet itself juts out two feet into the bedroom. Nobody wants their clothes to be wet and moldy from constant steaming. We had to fix that.

But first we had to remove the popcorn ceiling that covered the entire upstairs area. I didn’t take any pictures of the process, but it was extremely messy and annoying. First, we had to wet down the ceiling with a garden sprayer, and then scrape the texture off the ceiling using various tools. Then we sanded to attempt to cover up the terrible marks we made in the otherwise bare drywall. That took an entire weekend.

I took last week off entirely to complete the main task – which was moving the closet door to the bedroom, widening the closet into the bathroom, and removing the walls that stuck out into the bedroom.

I’m sick of typing so I’m just going to post pictures now. Click the link below to see the actual images.

Descriptions of each image are in their tooltips, in case a picture of a wall needs a description.

Before:

I forgot to take pictures during the demolition, so it skips straight to a partially rebuilt wall. It’s worth noting that the wall between the bathroom and closet was moved to widen the closet slightly. If you look carefully you can tell the wall was moved.

Wall Framing:

Electrical:

Drywall:

Mudding and taping:

Painting:

I will have to take more pictures to finish this. The light fixtures are installed now, the bathroom is almost complete (you can see the tile is installed in the last picture). I have my furniture moved in, the door jambs are painted. The carpet is still a little way off, because we have to complete the second bedroom still.

I’ll get some nicely staged “final” pictures this weekend.