The Furnace is in and offering a little heat

As soon as the furnace was operateing the drywall contractor was able to tape out the drywall sand it down and get it ready for the primer coat of paint.  We were now laying the ceramic tile in the pantry and the two bathrooms.  That finished we started work on the wall which would be directly behind the wood burning stove.  We assembled all the specs on the fireplace and the double wall chimney.  We showed this to the builder and the heating company and the builder called the inspector, who said follow the specs of the wood burning stove and pipe specs.  Okay I know this seems like a lot of steps to take  to make sure we had enough clearence to a non conbustible wall, but we didn't want to have to do this wall over again if it wasn't right.   All was well!  Or so we thought.
  Over the 2x4 in the wall we attached 1/2" dura-rock concrete board and over that we applied some old metal barn tin roofing that one of our dear customers gave to us.  Thank you so much Sarah.  We finished the wall and called the inspector.  All was not well and this is what we had to do after we took everything off the wall.
Install 1/2" dura-rock from the floor to the second floor -then cut 2'' strips of dura-rock in essence framing out the original sheets of dura-rock.  We had to put a second strip over the first one creating a 1" deep frame.

Here you can see the back piece the framing and now we added full sheets of dura-rock over the frame which then created the 1" air space that code required.  This made the inspector very happy.  And yes it was a pain to redo all our work but the wall is safer and it turned out looking better with this 1" build out.

If you like rustic we really hit that mark here.
Now we were finally able to start working on the walls.  We started in the downstairs bedroom trying to stay out of the way of the contractors.

This room has two walls  done in hand hewn cedar and two in pine boards.  I did love doing the hand hewing.  I know it sounds like a lot of work but being able to hand hew as it was done in a earlier time was very special to me.  This picture also shows that we almost have this floor complete.  A bit premature as none of the flooring went in until all the walls were in place. 
     From here we then started working on the main floor bathroom which is all done in tounge and groove cedar.

I did spend a whole lot of time on the internet looking for sinks and faucets and lighting that I couldn't live without.  LOL