Upstairs Drywall, Day 3: Taping, Mudding, Bedroom Relocation, and the Opening of a New Room

October 1, 2025

Cleanup around the windows near the base of the stairs. Liz and I did some of the preliminary work here, but definitely happy to pass the baton.

Some patching on the ceiling, from a bit of water damage.

Furnace room, second floor patching.

This is a bit crazy – the wall along our stairs. Note the small cutout on the right (a space the drywallers used, to rest their plank/scaffold). More compact and effient than a Bakers scaffold.

Tape and mud around the bunnies.

A few sneak peeks into our new closet. There’s no lighting back here yet, so it’s pretty dark.

It’s a little tricky to describe this space. For a long, long while… this was a back room that I used as my home office. You can find a lot of photos on the blog here under the tag back office.

But we recently built a new dividing wall, with the idea of splitting the room in two: one half would become a walk-in closet (accessible from the main bedroom). And the other half would be used for our bathroom, when we get around to re-doing it and making it bigger.

This view here is standing in the walk-in closet, facing and looking at the main bedroom.

Here’s the same bit of drywall, looking at it from the bedroom. When we first put up all this drywall (the blue stuff is soundproof drywall), the idea was that we’d eventually cut through and make this an entry into the closet. That day, finally, is today.

Small note: we spent the early part of the night, moving our bed and everything else out of this room, over to the front office. We’re looking to have some sanding done in here, and along with cutting into this wall… we needed to get everything out, before starting to work.