Tuesday, April 15, 2008

paint and flooring progress

The last few days we did quite a bit of painting. The ceilings were done last week, and we put up the primer paint layer. It's a special primer for new drywall which basically seals the drywall. Pretty neat stuff since now we have a nice, impermeable surface to put the real colors on.
I feel fortunate - Julie liked my color suggestions. After a lot of back and forth this winter, we settled on Benjamin Moore for most of the finish paint, Lighthouse for the basic wall color and we chose Caliente for the accent wall, which basically is what the south interior wall of the house became.
I told the drywall guys & day laborers not to bother painting the entire wall. We'll put cabinets up so no reason to paint the whole thing. The colors have turned out quite nicely and add a lot of character to the house, reflecting the sunlight into the house quite nicely.
We're basically now ready for Kenichi's cabinets to go in, since the flooring is also laid in, but not entirely finished.
Cody and Terry came in and put in the rest of the hardwood flooring. We at least got the base floor in, and after the cabinets are done they'll come in to sand and refinish the floors. It was really tough getting them in since they had some major personal family stuff going on, which is totally understandable, but boy was I getting nervous!
I'm also now really trying to manage the schedule tightly as I know I'm starting with VMware in a week's time, and we really want to move in 2 weekends from now - April 26 and 27! So much left to do inside the house to get it ready for us to live in. It's critical now that we get the major work done so that we don't have to create lots of noise and especially dust when the baby is living in the house.

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