Day 258 - Happy Easter

Saw this guy flying above the house the other day.  Bonus points if anyone can tell me what species of bird it is!

 

Fresh Coat Painters in the Hizzous!

Our house is starting to get colorful!  Fresh Coat Paint has been at the house for ~2 weeks now.  Mike, the main painter, has been great to work with!  He has the upstairs trim, ceilings & wood ceiling beams completely finished.  He and coworkers are currently working on the trim/bead board/stair parts for the main floor and starting to put down the color upstairs!!!  So far the master bathroom, master bedroom, laundry room, Betsy’s room, and the boys rooms are finished.  The master bedroom was finished, but there was a slight issue with the wall texture, so Justice Drywall had to come out yesterday and re-sand some of the walls to even things out.

Mike taping the windows

Filling nail holes in the bead board

Not quite ready for move-in

Industrial grade paint sprayer

Initial master bedroom paint

Those shiny lines that look like stairs shouldn't be there.

Texture issues with the drywall = Problem.  Re-sand the walls & repaint = Solution

Betsy's Room

Master Bathroom

Laundry Room

Stair parts

Sun room ceiling & beam

Sun room windows

 

Siding

Dave Kampsen & Kelly Kerfeld have been making steady progress on the siding.  The entire front of the house is finished except for the dormer above the garage.

Had the brackets painted at Flowers Automotive

Flooring

Scott Tullis came out yesterday and began laying down some flooring.  Scott was on-call for the ambulance at the same time.  Fortunately no ambulance calls until later that night!  He enlisted some help to pound down the rubber mat in the exercise room.

It goes together a bit like a jigsaw puzzle

I little sweeping & we're good to go!

Kid's bathroom flooring

 

Masonry

The stone on the back of the house is really starting to move along.  They have the entire walkout finished & should be starting on the exterior chimney sometime next week.  Yesterday they were prepping the scratch coat on the west side of the house.

Tile is Finished

Except for the kitchen/pantry backsplash (which won't get done until after the counter tops get installed on May 6th & 7th) all of the tile work is finished!  We ran into several problems with getting the correct tile from ProSource to finish the kids' bathroom.  First they send an extra 2 boxes of regular tile instead of bullnosed tile, so we had them courier up a the bullnose tile.  Unfortunately, they send the wrong color tile!  Oops!  Finally, after a week delay, Dave got the tile and was able to finish laying the bathroom tile.  I made an emergency trip to Home Depot on Friday night after work to pick up some grout (needed sanded grout instead of unsanded), and Dave finished grouting things on Saturday morning.  Thanks for all the hard work Dave!  Dave will be back around May 19th to finish off the kitchen backsplash.

Before grout

After grout

Master shower floor

Day 251 - All Aboard the Progress Train!

Doesn't quite look like Spring

Slow and steady continues to be the name of the game, but definite progress is being made.  The siding is coming along nicely.  The interior trim on the main floor is 95% done.  Fresh Coat Paint has things looking great on the upstairs.  The masonry is really looking in the back, and things are really starting to come together.

Post for the front entry has been installed

Bottom half of the mudroom lockers

This electrical outlet was too low & had to be moved, so it wouldn't run into the countertop

Master bedroom is all painted!

Momma & the H-Bomb

Shower in the master bath

Vanna, er, Emily shows off the bathroom paint color next to the painted bead board

Kid's bathroom almost ready for grout.

Betsy's room

Harry "Chunkin' the Deuce" like a pro. 

Relaxin' all cool in the kitchen sink

Jaci stopped by today to check things out

When in doubt, go dumpster diving!

Travis (of Tom, Al & Travis fame) had his last day working on our house this past week.  He decided to buy a Dairy Queen and go into business!  Good Luck Travis & thanks for all of your hard work on our new house!