our weekend workout

Here's our photo update from this past weekend (a 3-day weekend for my workhorse, E). The basement is an unholy mess in these photos, but after an hour long clean-up tonight it looks much better and the boxes of junk are stacked neatly. Anyway, I'll let the captions do all the talking as I'm whipped.
 

Terrible shot, but you can see the upper rail on the stairway, the stained steps, and the drywall being hung.

There was a paneled wall to the left here, that E and Dad tore down. This is in the "rebuild the shoddy studs" phase.

Another view of the torn down wall. E went to the Habitat Home Store today and let me choose a replacement laundry room door (he sent photos of a few to me) so we'll go back to pick it up later this week and install that, swinging into the laundry room instead of into the basement.

I installed the tiles at the landing/garage entrance. I still have to grout but I'm waiting to do that until we are at more of a break in the other work. A before shot is below.

On the menu for this week:

• meet with electrician to see about some 3-way switches and extra outlets
• finish hanging drywall on the laundry room wall
• finish hanging firring strips on the block wall
• get a coat of mud up on the drywall

We have heavy heavy rains forecast for the next few days which is great timing as we can keep an eye on the block wall to check for moisture. Once we've determined it's dry, we'll be ready to hang drywall on that wall as well (and maybe build my closet, E?). And with another 3-day weekend next weekend and I'm hopeful to have some prettier pics ready to post.