Drywalled, Mudded, and Painted Rooms

We used Antique white in all the rooms except the Bedroom. There we used Navajo white. The trim is what all the builders love, Swiss Coffee, a creamy white that enhances almost everything. This week-end Reg is going to get the floors in. Next week we will statrt moving things in. Today I start Lysoling the hallway bathroom.

Valerie is not a Neat Painter

I am working too - doing as much as I can. I am the job site clean up person and while Reg finishes up in the evening I clean the job site and put all the tools into a row where they can be found again in the morning. I am the gofer who runs to home depot for a needed part (Cell Phones are a life saver here - I call Reg on my cell, hand the phone to the person in the department who knows parts - and Reg tells him exactly what I need to bring back). I have been breaking up and bagging lots of the debris and taking it home to our own garbage can where we have more room - Our Park we will be living in has small, half size cans. Reg has only had to get 4 of the Builder Debris Paid Bags so far. To save costs I have been sanding and primer painting the closets. In case you didn't know, Older Manufactured Homes have closets with small 20 inch doors - with shelves that go back, back, back, into deep, dark, tunnels. I have crawled into these closets and sanded the paneling ( Thank you to Rob who has also done this to help me) and then painted the primer on the paneling. It was easy to miss many of the staples in these dark holes when, early on, we were removing all the staples sticking up - but - I assure you - if you crawl in with a paint brush you'll find every one of those nasty things gourging you as you wiggle around trying to get every spot with primer. You will notice in the picture that I have been a rather messy painter . I do a good paint job but I am somewhat well know for emerging from a paint job close to the exact color that I am painting.

The Drywall Difference

Wow - what a difference the drywall makes. Last week was

drywall going up - on the week-end was the mudding of the drywall - and today, Tuesday Feb 15 2011 starts the painting. Look how great the kitchen looks with the drywall up. Light and airy and SOOOO big !

We had a big freeze - no water that we needed

Sorry to have gone so long without Blogging! We have been busy busy busy - and I have had to get up very early and I am really not thinking clearly for the entire day when I get up at 5:30am or 6:00am. About 3 weeks ago we had a week of icy cold nights where it went below freezing! If only we had gotten some rain or snow too! another dry winter without enough water. Reg covered everything in his garden, Neighbors covered precious plants in yards - but we forgot all about the plants at the new home (5402 e. Mckellips). Here is that beautiful Fiscus tree in front of the house. It needed a light bulb and a sheet around it - but we forgot all about protecting this poor tree. The left side - facing the house and sheltered on that side is OK - but the right side - facing the cold - was killed by frost ! Reg says the trunk is OK so the tree will eventually come back.

Work, work, then work some more work.

Doing this now is a lot harder then last time, when we were just kids in our late 50's. Reg is doing 10 times more than I am. My job is mostly doing the sorting , packing , tossing, piling up stuff for another carport sale, all bathroom cabinets and linen closet are done, all Christmas stuff sorted and packed to be moved (some went to Good Will , etc, etc while Reg does the really hard work. I am also trying to get all the little repair jobs done at the Enrose House before the new tenant -Rob and Kids- move in ) Here is Reg on Sunday tearing out the rest of the master sink and redoing it's plumbing while I painted the new ceiling in his workroom/toolroom ( what ever we will call it ). As soon as it is done he can move garage stuff into it. The big cabinet/counter top on wheels that he built for our downstairs laundry room ( we have a laundry room upstairs too so the downstairs laundry room just became an extension of the garage) will be moved into this room.

Now - can you see what we see ?

Reg spent 2 hours moving this wall ( middle with old fashioned flower printed wallpaper ) so when the Oven and Refrigerator are on this wall there will still be a good space to open the pantry door (on the left just out of sight) and still plenty of room to go to the right towards the dining area. Utilizing this wall for the Oven AND the Refrigerator will give us more working counterspace than we have here, in the Enrose Street house.

Can you see what we see????

New TV viewing spot...The big wall in dark corner of the living room is where Reg will put his Home theater equipment. I spent a whole day pulling out all the staples and bent over nails from the floor. Back killing job. The 2 times I sat on the floor to work I got staples in my rear end. Yes - it was funny - but still not pleasant! On Saturday Avery and Audrey came over to help us pull more staples and pound down nails. They loved it!