It has been a busy week here at The Martin House as spaces begin to shape at breakneck speed!  The plumbing for our three new bathrooms is all roughed in, inspected and ready for the next step.  The electiricians are finishing their rough ins on the second floor and framing has gone up everywhere you turn.  I wanted to share some of the progress with you...

This is a view of the framed out guest bathroom.  You can see all the wiring that was ran today to all the new switch boxes and outlets.  Its hard to imagine those wires connecting beautiful light fixtures to wall switches across the room but that is exactly what I had to do to ensure that the electrical system functioned effortlessy as people move throughout the house.

Here is another view of the framed out guest bathroom.  If you look closely you can spot the track for the pocket door that was installed today.  Because of the steep slope of the ceiling a traditional swinging door won't fit and thus a pocket door is a great solution, and it helps to maximize precious square footage inside the bathroom.

While its hard to conceive, you're looking at the future home of the master bathroom vanity.  That slope is the staircase coming up on the other side giving you a great example of how tight the quarters are in this house.  I have had to be very creative in fitting all the necessary building systems and design elements together in a harmonious balance.  The bathroom vanity will cover over that slope and you will never know it was there!

Last bathroom shot...this completely barren space will be the full bathroom on the main floor.  This space once housed two single stall bathrooms AND a corridor!  Now it has been completely stripped down and those three pipes sticking out of the floor indicate the future home of our fabulous vintage clawfoot tub.

Another exciting development this week is the remaining restaurant equipment is finally being dismantled and hauled off to be scrapped.  Here the final stragglers await their fate in the scrap yard.  The contractors are going to have to break down the huge 10 burner stove (in the background on the right) piece by piece to get it out of the house.  I can't wait to see this room emptied out!

Even though it will be many weeks before furniture starts to be placed around the house, I have been busy sourcing many unique and fabulous pieces for the various room in The Martin House.  One of the most exciting finds thus far has been this beautiful tall clock that has a fascinating history:

The clock was made by local Provincetown artist Jim Manning, who speciliazes in works made from found or salvaged wood.  This particular clock was made from the chart table salvaged from the schooner ship "Hindu".  The Hindu has been a Provincetown legend for over 60 years, it was completely restored a number of years back and they literally threw the chart table away, lucky for us Jim snagged it from the trash and fashioned this beautiful piece.  The clock's propotions of being very tall (7 feet!) and very skinny are what atttracted me, as did the incredible hand painted clock face.

This will be an interesting addition to The Martin House, and one great piece of Provincetown history to compliment another.

The Hindu is unfortunately not in PTown this summer as its owners ran into some financial trouble as reported by the Cape Cod Times last week however we all hope it will return the harbour soon!

Demolition on various spaces inside of the Martin House is in full swing!  The contractors have already removed three truck loads of debris after tearing out the exisiting bathrooms and a few other extraneous walls here and there.

This is a view into one of the first floor rooms where they piled all the debris from the old restaurant bathrooms:

It may look chaotic but its actually quite a clean and well organized process and its very exciting to see the spaces reduced down to bare walls so the plumber and electrician can begin laying the ground work for the new bathrooms to come!