painting painting painting.....and some other stuff.

The house is really coming along now! And in the next few days things will start to look really different. This is the fun part - when all the visual progress happens!! Tonight and tomorrow will be our last (hopefully) long painting days, and it should mostly be completed. Except maybe the bathrooms.

Today and tomorrow the hardwood is starting to go in - and I am soooo excited to see how that will look!

I am really loving the colours on the walls - sometimes it looks grey, sometimes blue, sometimes green!! Just what I was hoping for =).

All the pot lights in the kitchen/living room have been installed.

The kitchen people called me today to say they wanted to move the install from May 17th to the 13th!! This is great news - because we are moving in on the 15th! And we will have a kitchen, and bathroom vanities. Kind of important components to a house. Too bad we have to wait another 15 days for countertop.......could be for some fun improvisation.

Vanity Tops

We bought these vanity tops for our bathrooms from Rona.

I liked the idea of cleaning these all in one pieces, and liked the shape of the sink.

The price was attractive as well when you put into account

that you usually have to pay for the counter top and sink separately.

Today all the mudding/taping/sanding/ceiling spraying will be done!

Tomorrow will be a full day of painting.

And the floor will be prepped for the flooring! Yippee!!

Day 29

Sorry for my hiatus...... I hope I can make it up to you =)

So what is going on?

Everything is framed and drywalled. All the time consuming, hard part, of the plumbing and electrical is complete. The mudder/taper/sander is currently doing his work on the new drywall, and should be done on Tuesday. Next week the floors should be installed, and the house will start coming together! Before then we need to finish painting everything, and have the floors prepped for the flooring. Yesterday the final wiring and holes were cut for the pot lights we are putting in the living room. This afternoon I go to the kitchen place for the final sign off of our plans.

We have luckily not run into any surprises, which has been great.

A big huge Thank You to my mom and friend Teresa for all the painting help!! It is really boring and lonely to paint alone in the evenings.....so I am so thankful for help!

I hope I haven't bored you silly with such a factual update.

Kitchen Samples

This morning was our final kitchen consultation at Marr-tech.

There are a lot of decisions to be made when putting together a kitchen from scratch.

It is very overwhelming (for me anyways).

I debated between white and linen cabinets for weeks.

Where to put glass, what knobs to pick (still haven't decided that)

What style door, what pull outs?! Oh, the list goes on, and on, and on.

Don't get me wrong. I am so grateful for the opportunity to pick it all out!

And that I am going to get a new kitchen. So so grateful.

But, the decisions still have to be made.

And it is something you don't really want to get wrong!

So we (or I) have picked out (as seen above)

Shaker doors in Linen, with Silestone counter top in Bianco Beach.

The wood to the left is the hardwood that will be in the kitchen

(and the whole main floor except bedrooms and bathrooms)

and also the colour of the wood going to be in the bathroom vanities.

Another thing I am grateful for: My husband.

He trusts me with all decorating decisions.

And doesn't care one bit what I pick. It really is so freeing.

If we both had our own opinions this would be so much more difficult.

Paint Troubles. (rant of the day)

I have had the hardest time with paint. I have bought over 10 test cans. But, when I put it on my walls, it looks ugly. I am trying to find a grey/blue. "Trying" being the key word. Well, I thought I found it. Bought 5 gallons. And it is BLUE!! Argh. It is so frustrating.

Currently, all the walls in the house are off white. Like a cream/beige type colour. My mom and I figure that the only way to get the colour to show up on the wall, the way it does on the little swatch, is to paint it on white. Soooo, we will be priming all the walls white, and then painting the "grey". Sigh........

I hate paint.

To wallpaper.....

Or not.

That is the question.

I found a gorgeous wallpaper at Rona. Can't find it on the website to post it here.

My thoughts were to put it on Miss N's walls, up to 6 ft. Then, have the 5" plain baseboard (that will be in the rest of the house) used at the top of that 6 ft. to be used as a ledge, with a piece of moulding underneath. Does that make any sense?! Anyways. I have a hard time finding art to decorate kids rooms. (Well, inexpensive art that looks nice!) So I thought this plan would remedy that because I could just a few things on the ledge, and call it done!

But I still haven't made up my mind. And it's not like the wallpaper will be a budget saver.....so, my question is. Would you wallpaper in your house? Or do you think it's too trendy?

Outside....

....Eunice must have loved perennials. There are everywhere.

Unfortunately. There is no rhyme or reason to their placement.

So I will be digging them up.

My question is,how will I know what bulb is what??

Anyone have a tip?

Rhubarb will be staying. Love it!

Framing bathrooms & Plumbing

Hallway view into the main bathroom
Laundry hook-ups

Shower base in the ensuite

Looking through to the ensuite from the main bath

Looking into the ensuite from the master bedroom

My dad has been working everyday to hook up all the plumbing for these bathrooms!

It is such a huge relief (financially) to have him doing all this for us - I am so thankful,

My mom starting some painting today as well. The kid's rooms ceilings are done.

As you can see, I still need to remove some wallpaper in the bathrooms!!

That, and picking paint colours is next on my list........