Final End to the Project

Ok I know there is a giant gap between postings but as many of you know it got pretty busy for me on the finishing end of things. Here are a few pictures of the end result.

Driveway side of house


River side of house


Downstairs, old middle bedroom, new huge office


New stairway to addition


Masterbath tub area


Masterbath shower area


Masterbath vanities


Masterbedroom looking at fireplace and TV

Master bed

Walkin Closet


Sitting Room, which is currently empty


Laundry Room

Day 66-80 Drywalling mostly

Well, looks as though I haven't had much time to update the blog site so let me bring everyone up to date.

Drywall - Well, that is hard to say complete. I battled with the drwall gang several times to get them to fix little dings and knicks and marks in the plaster. I did the whole upstairs and thought it was fair for them to return to finish the downstairs area. I then found more to do downstairs after they left. Will this drywall mess ever end?????? Meanwhile there is drywall dust on absolutely everything in the house, including the basement.

Exterior - 90% complete. Deck remains and some small tweaks. We did pick up the decking material since they just arrived.

Interior Plumbing - The shower lines have been run and the bathtub is installed in its final spot.

Painting - 2 Coats of paint are everywhere except the hallway and stairway, waiting a little longer for more contractors to finish. I had help painting 1 day and the rest I took a week of vacation and have been working my way around the rooms. I am a bit sick of painting now.

Tile - The laundry room got tiled late this week and he is starting on the bathroom floor in the morning. Nice to see some finishing happening.

HVAC - The furnace and A/C units are mostly installed, waiting for the gas line to be run to finish them up.

Lighting - The lights finally arrive and I picked them up today, wow that took almost as long as the entire project to get those babies.

Day 64/65 (Wed/Thu) - Taping and Color Selection

Wednesday the drywall taping guys arrived and applied a first coat of mud to everything and taped all the seams. I am dreading the next phase, sanding. Ugh there is going to be a layer of dust everywhere. We just have to keep telling ourselves just wait until it is finished and we'll love it.

We also went to Home Depot and picked out the Deck material and placed it on order. We have decided to try that new composite deck material. We figured it was a small enough area to try it out and see if we like it before we do a big deck in it down the road.

Thursday I met with the fireplace surround/cabinet guy, and we ironed out all the details for the building of the fireplace. Another 50% deposit out the window. He is the same guy who did our current fireplace and bar cabinets so we know he does good work so we felt better about using him versus another new person.

Nobody else showed up today to work on the project, another rain day in paradise.

We have also been experimenting with color options. I think we have selected the ones we are going with but we keep looking at the color wall and rethinking ourselves. Any opinions? If you double click on the photo you will be able to see a larger view of the picture.

Day 63 - Siding

The carpenters were back doing more siding, it appears it wants to rain about every other day so it is taking forever to get the siding done. This is the second side of the house complete. Now just the river and driveway sides to go. But more rain is in the forecast so this may take a while.

Day 62 (Mon, Oct 12) - Drywall

Today was a very eventful day. DRYWALL DAY.

The carpenter was here to quickly install the pocket doors so they were ready for drywall, then the drywallers took over. Holey cow, don't get in their way, they are like busy little beavers at work.

Then I found out about the drywallers aftermath. They are a messy bunch of people. Jeff and I spent 2 hours that night cleaning up the wake of destruction.

Day 61/62 (Sat/Sun) - Pam's Work

Sometimes you just have to make things right yourself. I spent part of this weekend framing things to get ready for drywall on Monday. I framed an access hole to get into the bathtub in case I ever need to work on it. Isn't that just the prettiest access hole you've ever seen. I spent most of Sunday admiring my handy work.


I also frame the old attic access hole so it could be drywalled over. I demo'ed the downstairs hallway trim the leads to the bedrooms. and added a few filler pieces in the old basement stair soffit area.

Day 59/60 (Thu/Fri) - Siding, fireplace

Sort of a quieter set of days, the guys were back siding. Here is a picture of the first side of the house just about done.

The HVAC guy semi-installed the fireplace to in its location, they still have to finish some pipes out the roof.