Week 22 electic

And God said..."Let there be light," (or in this case, the electrician!) and there was!

And heat!

This shows our two colors, the sheepskin and the green. The wooden structure is a substitute base cabinet to support the countertops.

Week 22 paint

The painter finished primer and has the first coat of paint on the walls.

Isn't this the warmest most beautiful wall color? It's called Sheepskin. We both love it. Good thing it's a warm color...it was 34 below zero this morning!!!!!

This green is on two walls of the kitchen. The rest of the kitchen will be the sheepskin color. Tomorrow he will do the second coat and probably finish up Thursday. The plumber and electrician are scheduled to be here Thursday also. So I guess next week the old kitchen wall will come down! Yeah!

Week 22 paint

Since my 15 totes of Christmas decorations are still in the shed, I had to find some way to decorate! I realized this post needed more protection when the painter came in so I wrapped it in a Christmas style of brown paper!

I arrived home tonight to the smell of saurkraut in the crock pot mixed with the smell of paint...yum yum. Dave was home sick today so he got some shots of Duke in action.

First he sprays a section...

Then he rolls it.

He put primer on all of the ceilings and most of the walls. Then he did the paint coat on all of the ceilings. He'll be back tomorrow to finish (hopefully) the primer areas and put color on the walls. Look for big changes tomorrow!

Deconstruction/reconstruction

More deconstruction....the wall between the old living room and the new living room is now gone! Yeah!!!

Here is a pic from the old living room, looking into the new living room.

This pic is from the other direction, from the new living room to the old living room.

Upstairs they framed the doorways.

Most of the ceilings were textured today also. Looks like they just need to do the bathroom ceiling and the ceiling under the balcony and dormer. Painter will be here next week.

Deconstruction

I have not been a very good blogger lately! :( Sorry!

Last week the tapers worked 3 days doing more and more layers of mud on the tape. When we came home from work on Thursday, the tall window in the current living room was gone and we could walk through! Yeah!

We had for our first meal in the new addition, Thanksgiving dinner!


Today they textured the walls with a "light orange peel" texture, but it wouldn't photograph well.

They also started deconstruction! This is the old living room wall- sheetrock is gone, all that is left is the outside sheeting.

They also broke through upstairs. This pic is from the west bedroom looking into the new dormer/hallway.
Here are the doorways into the upstairs bedrooms from the dormer. What a mess! I guess I don't have to clean for awhile though! It will probably get worse before it gets better!

Week 20 tape

The tapers were here before I left for work this morning. Today they did corners, inside corners and outside corners. They also did a second coat of mud on the seams. We will be able to use the space on Thanksgiving. The builder is going to take out a section of the wall between the current house and the addition, and clean up the addition area (wish he would clean up the rest of house too!) so we can put up tables and chairs for the holiday. Sounds like the tapers will be back again on Friday and maybe Saturday too. I hope we can get into the space soon enough to decorate for Christmas!

Week 19 tape

A large heater was brought in early this week to warm the rooms to do the tape and texture. I guess they need it to be a certain temp to apply the mud. Thursday and Friday they taped the seams and started the corners. It's really starting to look like a house! Sure hope we can at least set up a table in there for Thanksgiving dinner!