Window Ledges

And the adventures continue....today, in the form of window ledges, window trim, and painting the windows. The vertical sides and the ledges were trimmed. Still need to cap them off and add another board to the bottom of the ledges. The top will be fancy, sort of like the old living room window trim. Sorry no picture for that, but you'll get the idea when it's done!  :)

To paint the windows, Dennis took the storms completely out of their sockets!  And then leaned them against the walls to dry before putting them back in place

Bathroom window

Old dining room

Kitchen window

Odds and Ends

Nothing at all happened here yesterday, but today was a rather miscellaneous day.....quite a few little things were done! The painters were here again and sanded the mud around our living room and dining room windows and then the mud was painted to match the walls. On the front porch, they framed up the new window. In the addition, two new doors were delivered and one is currently sitting in the kitchen, but the other was installed as one of the bathroom doors. Outside, they trimmed up the last two windows, one of mine and the old bathroom window, added a downspout to the new gutter, and painted the first coat of red on our garage and back doors match the front steps and to give our house some zest! It's looking good!

Paint!

Yesterday was a big day! They painted the inside of the addition! We went with a brown color for the dining room area, and a blue/green for the bathroom. The kitchen only got a coat of paint on the ceiling because eventually there will be no exposed walls. We have decided to have a stone backsplash between the cupboards and the counter top, which takes up all the open wall space that would have otherwise been painted. In the bathroom, they also only painted the top 3/4 or so of the walls because we have decided to have wainscoting that will go from the floor to about 42 inches up on the wall. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's basically wood paneling that we will have painted white.

Heads up about the pictures: it is hard to get an accurate photo of the color, especially because there is so much variation in natural light in the rooms and no electric lights are installed yet. So bear in mind that the colors in the pictures are a wonky version of the actual color. One more reason to come visit us! So you can see what it actually looks like!  :)

Priming

Yesterday was a day filled with sanding and priming! And continued work on the siding.

And our new back door came! 

Leaning

Well, it turns out that not only are all of our old rooms in the house not square, but along with that, the whole house is leaning to the east by a good two inches already at the top of the addition...and who knows how many inches at the top of the house! On the east side, they were able to incorporate shakes even with the old shakes, but on the west side, they ran a vinyl buffer down from the edge of the addition roof to the bottom of the shakes.

Looking at the buffer from the addition side..notice it comes right up to the outer edge of it...

And looking at the buffer from the old side of the house.....and notice how much farther back the shakes are set against the vinyl...

And the garage siding is finished!

Ladders

I woke up this morning to the sound of painters setting up ladders underneath my window so they could start painting my corner of the house bright and early. Needless to say I scrambled out of bed to hang a makeshift curtain in the only window that didn't have one. Over the course of the day, the painters finished up the front of the house (complete with stairs and mailbox stand!) and the west wall (the one facing the apple tree), put another coat of mud inside the addition, and the construction workers made pretty good headway on the shakes on the garage!

Mud

Well, today was Day One of mudding the drywall. When I asked, our contractor told me that the painters will do three coats of "mud" before the walls are ready to paint. Which means they mud the third coat on Friday and will sand and be ready to paint next week. Let me translate: We need to pick out color schemes this week so they can paint it next week. Eek! We need all the help we can get! Ideas?

The also did more shingling on the garage and painted most of the front side of the house.