Pappy & Buster were super excited about digging the trenches for the water, gas, and electrical lines. At least 2 of the 3 could go in the same ditch. Right? :)
These are the trim boards for the siding on the front and screen porches. We used LP Smart Siding. I don't have any close up pics of it, but it is the yellow siding in the picture of the whole house. I didn't realize how uncommon this stuff was around here especially if you want the smooth. It was exactly what I wanted. Sometimes, you just have to ignore all of the nay-sayers out there and hope you don't regret it down the road.
I'm very excited about my green metal roof. There were two different shades of green and I went with the lighter.
I went out on a limb somewhat and ordered my cabinets from a company in Oregon called Barker Cabinets. They come shipped unassembled and unpainted (though you can pay extra to have them painted). I was really nervous about this because while it saved lots of money, it could be a really bad thing if they showed up and were just awful. Thankfully, they are amazing cabinets and look to be extremely well made. Though, I have to admit when we first opened the big boxes, I was a little overwhelmed about the sheer amount of materials. Thankfully, each cabinet is wrapped together with all of its pieces so you don't have to go hunting for the right parts. Plus, the drawers come already assembled.
We got our brick from Ruston Brick and they had exceptional customer service. We used Fireside by Hanson with ivory mortar and white sand. I love how it turned out!!
Here is Buster exhausted after working on the form for the back patio.
Here I am carrying in a board to be stained for the interior ceilings. I was just happy that it was a sunny day for a change and that the boards were actually light enough that I could carry them by myself.
Unfortunately, we keep getting rainstorm after rainstorm so we still haven't gotten the concrete poured for the front porch steps base nor the back patio. Gotta love the hole filling up with water. I'm just glad this didn't happen when we were working on the entire house form.
I didn't realize when we started this house exactly how much staining I would be doing. Tons!!
Here is our white vinyl beadboard on the screen porch. It is also on the front porch and carport. The guys from Phillips Vinyl Siding from Choudrant did a phenomenal job.
These are the pine boards for the interior ceilings. The clear coat is for the cathedral ceiling in the living room. The dark walnut stained boards are for the tray ceilings in the dining room, playroom, and master bedroom.
Somehow, the kitchen became the paint station. I rolled all of the walls with the Wagner Power Roller (a roller hooked up to a motor and pulls paint directly from the can). This thing was amazing and saved tons of time. It also had a small edge trimmer. We also had the Wagner Flexio 590 Paint Sprayer. We used this more for the ceiling edges, exterior siding, interior doors, and cabinets. I highly recommend both if you have lots of painting to do.
AJ's room is purple. She picked out the color. Well, she first picked out a darker brighter purple but I stayed in the same family but went with something a little more airy.
Picking out Conner's room color was the hardest choice. I finally went with a gray (it looks darker here). It is going to be baseball themed. I got some really awesome metal baseball pieces from Hobby Lobby that I can't wait to see on the wall. As you can see, I used all of the rooms as cabinet door drying area. This white is actually just the primer. The final color will be a little more of a creamy white (Sherwin Williams dover white to be exact).
The master bedroom is a light airy green and the master bath is a sunny yellow (the same as the playroom).
The office is what I call a light swampy green.
Its hard to see much of the playroom in this pic, but it is a bright sunny yellow (but not too bright). It is actually my favorite color of all the walls. The green door in the center is for the kitchen pantry. The glass french doors leading from the living room to the playroom will also be this green as well as the kitchen island. All of the other interior doors will be the white like the door in the background.
The main area (dining, living room, and kitchen) is a light pale yellow. I think it will have more of a yellow tint once the white trim goes up to provide more contrast. Apparently, I am a huge fan of green and yellow right now.
These are the cabinet doors for the kitchen island. I rigged up this drying rack because I wanted to paint the fronts and backs without having to wait a long time in between (and have to clean the machine twice).
Thats all for now. Hopefully, soon (really soon), we will have the boards up on the ceiling, cabinets finished painted and installed, interior doors installed, and window/door trim up. After that will be getting the electrical finished and installing the floors.
