Today I sanded, primed, and painted while the guys finished electrical. It was a Homestead Resort Tea Room Yellow kind of day.  The color was really bright and I hated it at first, but now that the whole room is done it looks pretty good.  The dark floors and medium tone cabinets should mellow the yellow. We had intended to lay the cork floors last night, but we wimped out around 10:30 and decided to [...]

Today, the walls went up! First, all the electric and plumbing had to be finalized.  Then we added insulation (itchy stuff I tell ya) between studs. Then drywall was hung. insulation in the walls When we were at Cory and Steve’s for dinner (thanks guys!) Len broke through the dining room wall for our pass through!  I hadn’t exactly told him my lighting plans so now we have to undo some of the work, but [...]

Here I am working today on the stove alcove.  I took down all the studs for the old divider walls and cut out nails in prep to repair the drywall tomorrow. Notice Hawise in the corner of the picture?  She loves to monitor our work and steal pieces of drywall to chew on in her crate.  We try to stop her, of course, because who knows what ingesting gypsum will do to a silly dog. [...]