Here's where we started.  The original cedar side wall shakes with multiple layers of lead paint. . .

  Here's where we're ending.  Fiber cement Hardie with factory applied finish.

I can't imagine ever growing tired of this magic.  Start in the morning with a stack of drywall.  Add skill and sweat and @ the end of the day the project has leaped ahead.  There's always a sense the project's on the downhill run when the 'rock is sanded. . .  Kudos to Jerry and Todd Wold  of JTW Drywall.  Thanks to their crew. 

After the insulating was complete and Mike Palm from the City of St. Paul

had inspected

it's time for the old heave

ho. . .