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 was more about the walls.  Leonard mudded nearly all day. In the afternoon we went shopping for appliances.  2 stores and we didn’t buy anything until Alex returned to Lowes for the vent fan.  Do you love or hate your fridge/dishwasher/range?  If so, please leave a comment.  We want to buy today for delivery Friday. After we came home from the fruitless marathon trip, Lil wanted to help.  We let her use a scraper [...]

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 [...]

Demolition starts on the kitchen tomorrow.  The general plan (I hope) is that we tear out and repair walls tomorrow, mud and sand the next day, then paint on the 28th before laying cork floor. The problem is that I don’t know what color to paint. The floors are amber hued cork.  Cabinets are light stained oak.  Countertops can be any virutally any color we want because the concrete and inclusions have limitless possibilities.  We [...]