Tearing up the master bedroom

This was one of the few rooms in the house where there was no wood paneling.  Instead, there was modern drywall, which was clearly put on top of some other material that wasn't the studs since in places it was even with the molding.  It gave a really odd look because the room was fine at a glance, but when you looked closer at it, the way the wall met the molding wasn't consistent.  Removing it was pretty easy since it essentially peeled off and then showed the old Beaver Bestwall, along with a ton of holes that were around the wiring.  Definitely an interesting choice in wallpaper though.

Clearly when the chimney was put in it was designed to be behind a wall since it is incredibly sloppy, plus more of those sideways 2x4s.

And it turns out that space on the left side of the closet door was just there to run 1 sewer vent and some romex for the bedrooms and bathrooms.  Nice use of space.

Then I decided to take down some of that old drywall to open things up a bit, it's pretty interesting how they mounted their switches in the middle of the stud cavity (the old 3 way switch for the stairs/hallway which was live knob and tube).

I bagged up that cellulose insulation in the dead space left of the closet and then took down the rest of the drywall in there.