painting the scene green!

It was a sloppy, sort of snowy morning, and seemed a good day to take off from work on the business and work on the bathroom instead! I got the painting in the bathroom done, and it looks great! I like the color, although at night with the compact fluorescents on, it doesn't look as nice to me as during the day. But we've banished incandescents so that's just the way it is! Besides, it's gorgeous during the day and I think the finishing moldings will make a big difference too! There was only one area of the drywall that was slightly lumpy, and that was a seam we were worried about as it was one of the first we hung and a lot butted up there. Fortunately, the lumpy spot is behind where the mirror for the vanity will be hanging, so if we had to make a strategic jointing error, that was really the right place to do it (sheer luck!! Love it when that happens!).

Wow, a nearly finished room! Awesome!

The kitchen is completely primered, now, as well, and we are using the same color in there. It's so nice to see some color and warmth in the dead of winter like this! The ceiling we'll finish hanging tomorrow and then we can get ready to finish up the plumbing hardware for the tub and get a shower going! We haven't had a ceiling to hang the rest of the hardware from, it's funny what a lot of steps you have to take before you can get to the finished product. What a great learning experience. Can you believe we want to do it again with all the we have now learned?! :-) We are reminded often of the chinese adage that so well describes how we feel about things..."When he runs out of work to do, man dies"

I'll post a few more pics of other things going on...

Shawn's just finishing screwing down the tile backer board for the mudroom floor. We'll tile it (he lays the tiles and mortars it in, and I grout it), and then build a bench out there for storing boots, and changing shoes, etc. Shawn's going to build in a small area to store wood so it's got a place to stay before being burned, besides all over the living room! What else? We'll soon also send photos of the painted kitchen. We got our siding estimate today so are on a savings rampage to try and get it saved for (we're one third of the way there) before leaving for our long anticipated vacation to the west coast to see all the things and people we are missing so much!! :-)

More soon...thanks for reading! Your comments and emails really keep us working hard!