This past week only a couple of things have been going on, so I didn't write at all since last Sunday....
You could say it was a quiet week at the house, when in reality it was anything but....it was just that there was only about 4 people at work on the house this week.
The drywaller finished his work in the house on Sunday, and then drywalled the garage on Monday. He left Monday and is now finished in the house and the drywall looks good.
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| Drywall is up on the garage |
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| upstairs in the loft area |
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| looking from the front entry into the dining area |
Tuesday saw the plasterers show up and begin their work. They worked for parts of three days on plastering all the walls and the ceiling with a "semi-smooth" type texture we chose.
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| the master bedroom |
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| looking into the dining room |
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| the living room |
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| overlook from the loft into the living room |
While the plasterers were finishing up in the house and garage, the siding guy was putting up more siding, the soffits went up on the front porch, and the front entry columns (which will be covered in stone in the future) got framed up. Also, the fireplace "black box" is now completely in place.
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| fireplace |
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| soffit above the front porch |
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| garage plastered |
Also, this past week we've selected the contractor to do both our new lawn install and the concrete driveway (Ken Stencil from Denmark).
Monday will see the arrival of the painter! Robin and I have a meeting with him and Joe (Dennis' on-site guy) Monday morning before work. We're going to run through and discuss what colors go where on the walls and ceiling.
What the painter does per the contract is he comes in and spray paints the entire room; walls and ceiling one color. If he has to pick up a brush or roller he charges extra.
So in a few rooms he'll be spraying the entire room the color we want the ceiling and we'll be painting the walls ourselves.
Any painting we need to do in areas that will have hard-surface (i.e. - non carpet) flooring we will need to do Tuesday and Wednesday (any carpeted rooms to be painted by us we'll have about a week to do) because the flooring supplier is schedule to show up on Thursday to install all the hard surface flooring. Once they're done with that, I believe they'll have a two man crew on-site for an entire week doing nothing but building the tile shower in the master bathroom.
Exciting things are coming!
Paul
