Stair railing is done

They finished assembling the stair railing yesterday. It looks beautiful. I still have to stain and seal it, but I want to test out the colors on some scrap wood first.

We have heat!

They put the new furnace in yesterday. I still have to get used to how it works, but at least the entire house was warm last night. Heat is nice... :)


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After:

Color on the walls

Color started going on the walls yesterday. The office and the library are the same color, so the painter did those first. It's a really nice color. It looks great seeing rooms get finished. :)


Hallway:




Daughter's bedroom



Son's bedroom


Living Room


Living Room


Library

Bamboo floor

The office has bamboo flooring from Teragren www.teragren.com/
It has no formaldehyde, and it is responsibly grown and harvested. It's also a very hard "wood".

All the walls are primed

The painter made quick work of painting. All the walls are primed, and the ceilings are done in the final coat. Now it's really starting to look finished. The walls are solid now. Yes, it's all a very boring white, but at least it's a solid white.

The paint is ZERO VOC paint from MythicPaint http://www.mythicpaint.com/
There is no smell to the paint, no poisonous chemicals off-gassing, much better for the environment, etc.

Spackle is done

They finally came yesterday to finish the spackling. We're still not sure why they didn't come for a few days.?.? Anyway, they are done. There's that delightful white dust all over the downstairs..... Luckily, upstairs we were able to tarp off the existing part of the house, but downstairs is too open, and too much stuff there to protect it. When we move everything to the new part of the house, we'll just have to clean it piece by piece.

Upstairs doors are in and windows framed

Yesterday, they put up the doors and trimmed out all the windows upstairs. It makes a huge difference. Things are starting to get cleaned up and finished. They did a really nice job on the windows. I'm very happy with how they turned out.

Spackle is going on

The first coat of spackle is up. It takes a while to dry, so there is one day when it just sits there.... They are coming back on Saturday to do the 2nd coat. That gives it Sunday to dry, then Monday they can finish. Next week should be really fun. That's when a lot of the finish work starts happening.... :)

Drywall going up

The drywall is done downstairs, and most of it is done upstairs. They should be done by today, or tomorrow at the latest. The drywall really starts to make the rooms look like rooms. Once the spackler comes in and does his thing to make the walls look like one solid wall, instead of pieces of drywall screwed to the wall, I think it will make another huge transition towards being "done".