Things are still underway but the end is finally in sight. Pesky things like jobs and such took priority and progress slowed for a couple of months, but June saw a fair amount of forward momentum and the house is starting to feel like a house again. We have walls!!! And as of a couple days ago AC, so we can actually work without heat stroke, it's great.
FRONT DOOR
There have been a number of things that have been decided then re-decided and a few even re-re-decided. Things like stripping wall paper, refastening the drywall then deciding to tear the drywall out so we could insulate. Hindsight and all that. The front door has also succumb to this reconsideration. Not the color and not the door itself, ,we still love the color and the door. However, it was apparent when you walked up to the front door that it has had a few colors over it's lifespan and the surface looked pretty rough. Scraping the loose paint just didn't give it a nice finish. So we decided that we needed strip the paint so we could have a smooth surface for our new-old door.
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Evidence of years of scraping the loose paint and just painting
over it were evident when you actually came up to the door |
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| Paint Stripper in Action |
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| This is going to take awhile |
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Finally!!! It took awhile to get all that paint out of all those recessed panels,
But now the sad sad door is just waiting to be sanded and repainted
INSULATION
If you can remember way back to when we started this one of the first things we found out when we moved in was that there was 1-inch faced batt insulation in our exterior walls. That nasty old stuff is no more. We now have lots of 3.5" R-11 insulation everywhere. We had some extra so we also insulated all the interior walls that had the drywall removed, and lets be honest it was most of them. Now that it's summer I can tell you that the AC at the sister house next door runs all the time. Here's to hoping that removing the remainder of the drywall to add insulation pays off and we have manageable electricity bills.
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| Getting insulation into the walls |
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| Hopefully a hot sticky bedroom won't keep anyone up in here |
WALLS
We have drywall, this is when the house really started to feel like a house again rather than a construction site. Although, I lost the texture battle. I do not like it but I have been told on numerous occasions that smooth walls are just not an option in the south. I am told we got a splatter and drag, I can't tell the difference between the types and I don't like any of it but I'll get used to it.
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| Living room walls |
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| Master bedroom looking out our new doors |
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| Master bedroom looking back |
TRIM
Trim is where Robert shines, he's been working really hard to get it up so we can get ready to paint. I have to admit that I am going to really enjoy the custom closets.
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| Dining room crown, chair rail and trim (also new floor tile) installed |
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Game room doors & crown installed
Looking from the game room back into the dining room |
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Custom pantry shelves, notched to keep the shelves from getting too deep
and to give us room to install a spice rack onto the door |
PAINT
Yes, we finally have chosen all of our interior paint colors. Again, paint choices were decided then re-decided and with over $100 worth of $3 dollar samples now in our possession we are happy with our selection. Now just to get it painted before we change our mind again ....
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| I think we've bought samples of most of that PPG Color wheel |
FINALLY
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| A working toilet! |
