How it all got started....

So about 7 years ago, or right after we bought the house we started to think/plan about what we wanted to do in the attic.  Lucky for us, the person who rehabbed the house in the 80's planned the area where the original stairway was to the attic.  It was not rebuilt, be the stairway can easily be put back in.

 

Anyways, back to when we moved in.  After our first heat bill we knew we needed to add insulation to the attic.  So we cleaned out all the old wood that was stored up there (old door frames from the rehab that I later ripped down and built a wine rack).  We added 70+ bags of cellulose insulation into the floor and our heat bill was much more manageable.
Then came the debate, how should we insulate so that we can finish the attic into livable space?  Cellulose or fiberglass?  Closed cell or open cell?  Baffles or no baffles?  Foil or no foil?  I did massive amounts of research and invited a friend over to consult with.  So I started to tear out the "stuff" out that was up there.  It was a type of hard board that had a ton of nails in it!  On the bright side I did tear out some shelves that was made of tongue and groove bead board.  (I plan to reuse that on the ceiling or the stairway.)

Well gotta go for now, I am almost to the present but had a few more details to add.