Back in March, they started putting the bats up on the inside. This pic doesn't show it, but it makes the outside match the inside and that looks pretty cool
The architect came up for a visit at the end of March. It was fun to get his perspective on how the house is going. He seemed very happy. This is about what it looked like when he came.
That's the bamboo flooring in the boxes.
We had fun hanging out with Doug and Maggie. Maggie is the nicest woman ever and she helped talk me down from my panic about choosing all the fixtures (it's hard to make all these decisions, don't knock it till you've been through it)
I think Doug likes this house because Eric let him do what ever he wanted architecturally. Unfortunately, Doug is excited to submit this house for all sorts of awards (he normally designs for uber rich gigantic home people. This 'normal' house opens up all sorts of new categories of awards) Other than the craziness of living in an award winning home, this puts the pressure on the garden big time!
By April, they started painting. Then had to redo bit due to an issue with the drywall texture. The drywall had a texture that didn't match the tape and mud texture at the seams. When the sun shone through just right, and the sun always shines in that house, lines popped up everywhere. Tom and Phil had to retexture everything. It was very annoying, a case of not my fault or mine and poor Tom and Phil had to fix it. Another reason this place takes forever.
We mostly went neutral white (me purposely paint white?! I know, but it worked) to let the wood dominate the space. The guest room got color though, and is green. very green. It actually looks amazing once the closet and floor go in. But it was a bit intense at first.
The bids for the floor were ridiculously high. I volunteered to be the minion to whomever put them in to save money. So Tom, Phil and I did the floors. It was fun especially because I did all the easy stuff and let the boys do the difficult cutting ad stuff. Lots of floors though, and the glue felt like nougat.
Upstairs is dark bamboo, downstairs light. I didn't get pics of downstairs and it's covered with protective cardboard at the moment.
The end of April they came and poured the patios.
It looks really cool with lots of different layers and stuff.
Distraction from house, dealing with weeds! Eric's Parents got Serin and us a fancy riding mower. The weeds were about 7 feet at this point, so it has been an adventure. We still aren't done, but making progress. Here is the easy side of Serin's place, her neighbors were complaining about all the potential seeds from the mass of blackberries and thistles and more... and Serin was out of town, so weeeeee
Tom is currently working on the stair railings, not as easy as you might think. Lots of notching and replacing rails over and over. It will look great when done though.
The tile guys started prepping for tile, but they cant do anything more until the cabinets come. When are they coming? Oh, a month or two ago. Or this week! Or not. Next week maybe. Everything is waiting on cabinets now. Argh.
I got my Mediterranean garden water feature. But the messed it up and it looked horrible. So, here the guy is jackhammering it back out.
They repoured it last week, and set it up right.
It looks much better
And then Friday, finally the cabinets got delivered. I'm going up today between finals to watch them get installed. I'm so excited!
