Paint the town...or at least Hoodlum house!

We continue to make progress now that the house has been sheet rocked and textured. The weather has not been cooperating and has remained in the low 60's with rain almost daily. Our goal is to get the humidity out of the house so we can start laying the hardwood floors. Keep dreaming Katie...the forecast calls for rain all week. Oh well....we did get a few things off our list this weekend:

Shingles stained....check

Avie was a big helper on this project. We had a good time talking and listen to music.

Build a miter saw stand...check

Done entirely by Thomas...I was personally really impressed. I have since given him a few new projects since he did such a good job on this one. Grandpa Wildman would be proud of his little prodigy.

Start refinishing Avie's future headboard. This was rescued by my brother, Ry, many years ago. We have moved it a few times and are finally in the process of getting it done for Avie. Still haven't decided on a final color for it. Considering the same pink color but Avie is a bit resistant.

Get house numbers done...check
This is at the entrance of our driveway. Quinn had good time hunting lizards while I was doing this project.

Pick out paint colors. This required an emergency call to my sister in law and many hours of stressing. The paint guy laughed at me the other day because I had used over 15 samples of wall paint. Here is a sample before the insanity started. Needless to say, only of few of these made the cut.

The blue is Avie's accent wall, the purple is Taryn's and the grey is the master bedroom color. The rest of them didn't work.  We've spent over $3,000 on paint, the extra hundred dollars I spent on samples was well worth it!

Oh yeah, paint the interior...almost check. The ceiling will get done on Tuesday after the wall paint has had a chance to dry. Here is the future dining room and kitchen. Please excuse Thomas and Avie for getting in the way.

Here is our foyer. The main wall color is Sherwin-Williams Macadamia.

Foyer

 Quinn's room

Jack and Jill Bathroom

Future Kitchen

 Finally...in attempt to get some of the humidity out the house we built our first fire. Quinn spent this time using chunks of sheet rock as chalk and writing various, not always nice, words on pieces of wood. I keep telling him he needs to use his intelligence for good not evil. Seriously he was writing 'Avie poo poo'...stinker!

There is so many things that have been completed in the last few weeks I cannot list them all. Next week we will get some decks completed, garage doors will be installed, we'll pick up our hardwood floors and put on our exterior door hardware. Wish us luck...our goal is to be in the house before my brother comes to visit on July 9th.

The sweet smell of drywall?

After an unexpected trip back to Idaho, we are back and ready to start painting. Wish we could have went back under better circumstances but it was so great to see our family. I have been so busy with everything I guess I forgot how homesick I was.

The front door was delivered last week. I get home from work late and usually I'm running to soccer, T-ball or home to feed the family dinner. The night it got installed I went straight up to the house. I just couldn't wait to see it. Well...it's huge but I love it! All vertical 9 feet of it.

The bottom floor is dry walled and they have started the upstairs. Here is the foyer...with another shot of the front door.

Here is a photo of the living room and fireplace.

Here is a photo of the mechanical room which will also be home to much of my pantry

Here is a photo of the jack and jill bathroom.

Here is a photo of the my little pantry. The hot water heater was moved into my mud room and that meant giving up my locker style bench that I was so excited about. The bonus was that I did get some extra pantry space in the mechanical room

Taryn's bedroom which will double as the guest room. So to all our family and friends this will be your view if you come to visit.

Here is the barrel ceiling. This was an expensive feature but I think it's going to look great!

The last photo is a picture looking from the living room to the kitchen and dining room.

So by next week we should be pretty close to having the place taped and textured. Which means 5000 square feet of painting for me. When I agreed to painting Thomas didn't say anything about drywall primer and the fact that I was painting the whole house twice.