Day 60: Stop and Stair

They are almost normal! I mean they are narrow, and steep, and twisty, and in need of hand rail.

BUT, walls painted, and stairs carpeted, and looking good.

Looking up:




Looking down:

Day 57-60: Kitchen

Kitchen has been a disaster zone with things papered over and taped off for painting and trim cutting etc, but it's coming together... Can't wait to see it all unveiled!

Entry from living room:


Walls painted and corner shelves in:


Cabinet close up:


Back up view:


And to the right, Milton working (our GC):


Oven area cabinets painted:




More wall paint progress:
-before

-after

Day 56: Floored

So two things going on in the sun room.
1) THERE'S TILE (and it's grouted)!
I love it, it's beautiful. We had considered a lighter almost more tan and green tile. But with the coolness of the walls, and the tan mix color tile in both bathrooms, I felt at risk of looking like I just went with same tile everywhere. So I wanted something different, something that popped a bit, and I want this room itself to be fresh and sunny and vacation or escape feeling.
I am a little relieved after seeing tile about wall color. Still not my fav but it's growing on me, or at least not a neg for me. Just not something I am actively into. Like my tile. LOL.

I lied. There are three things. 2) is actually that thermostat. Why did he put it on the far wall? Why between two windows, and off center? Neither looks good nor is functional. Will have to be moved. I mean I get it; it was easier, not much wiring to be done, and I am SURE they did a lot of things the 'easier way'. I don't mind, it's how they make money. But when easier means annoying to use and eyesore, gotta call them out on it.

3) HARDWOOD ARRIVED! There is a bizarre warm front and then a POLAR VORTEX and so temp flux and humidity going on so installation a little delayed. But it's here! So excited to see this in master bedroom.


And now into the kitchen- MORE TILE FLOORING!


It was tough and we need to stay off it a little longer than normal as the floor was different heights and so in some spots they had to use more cement than others. I am a little nervous that will be a prob one day, but what to do? Looked like they really took their time and did it right, and we will not be stepping on it until after they give us the ok.



A little nervous about grout too. Wasn't sure about going dark on floor and wall, but then again especially on back splash, nervous about light showing stains near oven and such. And kitchen is very high traffic. So hoping that comes out well. The sun room worked well so I am thinking this should be fine.

Upstairs hall walls and trim are painted. There may be additional coats or touch ups after getting flooring upstairs but so far looking good. This is same color as in sun room, and again not my fav but looks decent, opens the area up, and in general works well enough.



And looking into the bedroom...


It's a mess! But check out that sweet new fan! This is where they have been spray painting cabinets our Lancaster White. But just about done with that and floor going in imminently. Love the Revere Pewter color on the walls. Thank you mom for the great rec!

Day 50: Trimming

Into the sun room:


Windows trimmed and room continuing to take finished shape. Can't wait for the tile!!!!!


*a note... I am nervous about the paint color. Baby bluer than I orig thought, and YES while it is changeable... now that it is painted, it's moved down the list of priorities... like - throughout this process I have been given a lot of ideas as far as "well it would only be a couple hundred bucks more for..." and they are great ideas. BUT, thing is... we are doing work to the kitchen, dining room, office, guestroom, master, sun room, living room, minor bathroom stuff, attic, halls/stairs, closets, outside (siding, three doorways, outside lighting), and eventually yard. There are probably 50 to 100 EASILY thought of things I could do slightly nicer, better, etc for 200-1000$ a piece. But the issue is, can't do them all. Have to pick and choose.
Also, at the end of this, we will be continuing to look for deals on new appliances, a new couch, new arm chair, guest bedroom furnishings, etc. Soooooooooo...it's not my fav color but FINGERS CROSSED it comes together because we certainly have someplace more important to put the $ to redo it.

Mess - one day this will be a dining room not a storage room... excited... they plan to paint it soon! We are going with the old kitchen color. Its like a bisque tan color. The yellow was bright and fun for a while but a little extreme considering most of the rooms have a more historic classic look:


And THANK YOU to MICHAELINE and MOM for providing our touch of Christmas this year! Was a sad year without a tree but I come home to this wreath every day and smile.

Days 30-37: The Kitchen Begins to Form

So the color is going to look a little bland because the walls are still 90% primed or spackled but this is Ben Moore's LANCASTER WHITE. I liked it because it was neutral but warm. I want to eventually do a glaze but in case that's on my honey never do list, I wanted to be happy with the color as is as well.

Also, yes, I know, it all looks the same and really unless you have been in the house, hard to tell what's what... but I tried to include some establishing shots, but yeah here are some pics of the kitchen and the changes happening there!

This is the wall you are looking at if you walk in the back door:



Turning to your left...


This is the wall that is between the kitchen and dining room (back door to your left and living room to your right.):



This is the wall between the kitchen and outside (aka opposite the one you just looked at):
before-

after-


Here is the wide view if you were standing by the side door entrance to the kitchen (or standing near where those first cabinets are that you saw) looking at the back door:


Turning a bit to the right...


Now the side door entrance has always been a little cramped. No matter what we do we will have a little more room but the big question was... forgo counter to open door all the way?


Or forgo wide door opening to have counter?


We opted for counter. Seemed unnatural to not have enough counter to the right of the sink for stacking dirty dishes.



On a side note, will I never be through with this wallpaper?

Day 4 and into the Weekend: Wrapped Up

So originally they were going to work on the roof on into the weekend due to the rain on Monday. They decided against due to not thinking they could finish on time anyways. WELL THANK GOODNESS. They ran started Saturday, and continued on through till Monday morning. And we had some crazy 40+ mph winds last night that made me think our house was going to blow away. The THWAP of the tarp was like hearing waves crash at the shore. However as it turns out, we did not and the house remained all wrapped up.


In the meantime we did some little jobs like removing tape that had been up for YEARS, so we could repaint and finish the dining room eventually. Learned a valuable lesson. The green tape didn't pull up much paint at all, but the blue destroyed the paint job. The green is definitely better and worth paying up for.


Also, we used the downtime to finalize some kitchen planning with Milton.
Granite:


Cabinet Color:


Wall:


Layout:


Very excited, think it's going to look GREAT!

Painting in the DA-ARK, Oh OH, oh-oh

So it was a Billy Idol evening as we sang to ourselves "Painting in the Dark" to Dancing with Myself AND "Paint without a Light" to Eyes without a Face. Had nothing to do with alcohol. The Bud Light with Lime didn't come until we ran out of lyrics.



Oh, when there's no way to get light,
In the bathroom crowded tight,
I just grab a brush cuz I'm in a rush,
And I'm painting in the Da-ark...






So let's sink another beer,
Cuz it's gettin hot in here,
I'm on a roll, up on the wall,
And I'm painting in the Da-ark...



OH-Oh... oh-oh.




Paint without a light,
No clue if it's done right, paint without a light,
Tryin' to wash these rollers white, paint without a light...



Seriously though... if you don't like Billy Idol- blame Roxanne, she's the one that got me into him. If you think we rock, credit Roxanne.

:)