The Joy of Building

Part of the excitement of our new apartment was the phrase from Saul, "You can do whatever you want."  Me being who I am said, "wait... WHATEVER we want?"  I then started pointed and asking if this and that was ok.  Saul, always the patient agent, simply replied "yes" to every lunatic request I could think of just to make sure he was telling me the truth.  

So- I called Eddie up and quickly began doing whatever I wanted.  Raef, my roommate, and I decided we would run three rooms across the windows so that everyone would have window access.  We ended up taking out the heating unit in the middle room (our soon to be 3rd tenant) and the rooms came out to a rough 7' x 12'.    

Eddie brought his nephew with him and we quickly through up the framing.  

Little time went by at all before we started getting the sheet rock up.  And just to show how confident I was in our skills, I made sure our work could hold my weight.  Very nice!  Naturally, the crew needs payment.  So even though they drive a hard-bargain, I talked them down to endless cups of coffee.  

One last bit about the joy of building.  Some have framing skills.  Some master sheet rock.  Others were born administrators.  Raef is seen in the picture below guiding us as to the proper way to not only work, but rock out.