Wow, what a week. We got cabinets installed, interior doors, trim, stairway posts, our first light fixtures, our stone wall and porch posts. It’s amazing seeing it come together and start to look like a house. The trim is just beautiful and really brings it all together. The cabinets are magnificent and the stone wall is just breathtaking! The kitchen/dining room is really coming together with the terra cotta walls, dark cabinets and stone archway. I think you will all like the paint color a little more now.

We have a few light fixtures in the house now and hopefully the rest will be in by week end. I never realized how great electricity is! The porch posts have been installed and they are working on the balcony. Dad’s working on the AC, so hopefully that will be running upstairs this weekend.

We’ll have to get ourselves back to painting the last couple of rooms and then start working on the trim. If anyone would like to volunteer to help, be our guest! TTFN

We have been having a lot of fun painting this past week. I suppose it was fun, as long as you consider painting for 10 hours a day and sweating in a 90 degree house fun.

But all in all it has been going very well. We have some bold terra cotta color going on in the dining room and kitchen.  The office is a sweet olive green. I had to get my beloved green in there somewhere and what better place than the office. Hopefully by Sunday night most of the upstairs will be done. We probably won’t get the two spare rooms done but that’s ok.

Also, the wood floor was delivered two days ago. It looks cool. I like to say it is “peppered with distinction”. But by peppered I mean, “full of nail holes.” It should look amazing once it gets installed. The wood is an antique reclaimed wood from authenticpinefloors.com. They told me that the antique reclaimed wood is from pine trees that were around 100 years old and cut down to build mills, distilleries, factories etc. Those buildings are now around 100 years old themselves and are abandoned and being torn down. The wood is being reclaimed, milled, and turned into flooring. So the wood that will be on the floor in house will be already around 200 years old. Amazing!

I promise there will be pictures coming soon.

The drywallers finished taping and sanding this week, so the house was all ready to be primed. Joe and Carrie came Friday night with the craft center and taped off the doors and windows and prep for priming. And they were there at 8:30 Saturday morning to begin priming. Thank God for siblings and talented ones at that.

The paint sprayer worked amazing well and I guess it helped that Joe knew what he was doing. We sprayed the primer on everything and then rolled behind for a nice even coverage. We did the bathroom and some smaller areas by hand, but most of it was sprayed. Everyone seemed to underestimate the number of gallons of primer we would need. So after 14 gallons and the upstairs not even finished, we went back to Home Depot for another round. All in all, we used 27 gallons of primer. That’s crazy. It’s not even that thick, but it came out really nice. And we will never paint the ceilings, so that’s one thing we’re done with. They look really good.

We’re just left with a little issue of how to reach the ceiling in the stairway, so we’ll need to work that out quickly and then we’ll be ready to paint! New albums in the Photo Gallery. Check em out.