tearing out the closet

fourth floor closet being torn out. we did this in one night, and it really felt like the four of us were a well-oiled machine. we quickly took down the plaster and lathe, cut the studs out, bundled and bagged everything, and started a fire line down the stairs to get rid of the trash. i don't know if it's getting easier, but we certainly know our way around demolition in this house at this point...

preparing to tear some stuff up on the fourth floor

thabo and melissa are jumping into final renovations on their apartment, and here we are covering their stuff up and preparing to demo a closet and wall. the bottom pic shows the closet on the right side of the picture. it will soon no longer exist.

crown moulding

putting some of that crown moulding up (with the help of my dad's borrowed nail gun). i look happy in the bottom pic, but i'm pretty sure that's delerium from making so many wrong angled cuts...

trim in the third floor apartment

here's what the apartment looks like without crown moulding, but with pretty much everything else finished.

3rd floor trim and shelf

putting up crown moulding in the third floor apartment. it's amazing what touch-up paint and caulk can do at this stage; they can really make things look finished. in the pic is a shelf we hung in the kitchen, too.