Labour Day Weekend

You may be "labouring" under the misconception that we haven't been doing any work on the house. However, nothing could be further from the truth!

We had our garage doors and openers installed.

We've also finished most of the painting throughout the house. We are using Home Depot's Behr® paints and are very happy with the results. Reba has also started installing the kitchen cabinets that we got from Ikea®. Any ideas for the countertops? We have to get going on that. The cabinets' exterior is the colour of the corner shelf you see in the picture.

We also spent a bunch of the day yesterday installing the siding above the garage. It worked out well b/c its been raining all day today.

The siding that we're using for the dormers arrived on Friday as well.

Becky also informs me that she has been installing light fixtures, switches and plug-ins. I hit my head on the chandelier in the kitchen again today. Ouch!

Cobalt (the cat) continues to be hale and hearty as well despite the ongoing presence of hawks in the area.

Helpers!

Yesterday was great because we had some helpers show up unexpectedly! My sisters-in-law Kathleen and Carolyn came to help us paint. We also had some much-appreciated help from my niece Brandi and her friend from Raymond. Kath and Carolyn didn't want their pictures on the blog but I think this one turned out well. We drank pop and ate pizza from Dine-O's when it was all over. Also we ordered up Kath a new computer from the Apple® store.

Painting

Fun with Paint (or Taking Five Years Off of Your Life!)

The knock down got finished as you can see in the picture of the kitchen (the room with the round hole in the wall). In the upstairs we also sprayed a whole bunch of money out through a paint sprayer. I breathed in a whole lot of paint (good thing it was latex!). My parents are coming over today to help put on the colours. 

Ready for 'Knockdown' and Garage Doors

The drywallers hung the plastic and painted the ceilings yesterday in preparation for the "knockdown" ceilings. They splatter on some mud and then knock it down with a knife. We wanted to go with flat ceilings but the head of the crew convinced me that we wouldn't be happy b/c of the imperfections we'd see.

It actually looks pretty good with just the primer on it but I could see some "wavy-ness" which could have been caused by the paint. The study will have a flat ceiling but the rest of the rooms will have knock-down. Decisions like this are a pain because you have to live with them for a long time. Having said that, I am very happy with the work they have done thus far.

I included this picture of the garage because our doors are supposed to arrive today (crosses fingers).

Turbo Taping and Mudding

This is the corner of the living room where the wood stove is going. There are some pictures of the study, the kitchen and one of the back entry and "powder room" . We went to The Home Depot and bought a bunch of paint on Saturday. 

C & C Drywall Comes Through!

I got the name of this company from someone at my work. Clayton from C & C came out right after I called them and measured up the whole thing. Their quote was also the lowest plus the fact that they were actually willing to come out to Milk River!

There are just a couple of rooms left and the stairs. If they finish today it will have taken them three days to board it. Later today the taping and mudding will begin. Yay!

I think Beth's room must be way bigger than Ethan's. I guess we just love her more.

The pictures here are Ethan's west wall and dormer. Then we have the closet in our master bedroom. Next is a shot of the living room. There is also a shot of the living room taken from the kitchen.