The Countdown is On

It’s official.  In one month, we’ll be moving into the house.  Of course, it’s not going to be an easy month.  As we’re learning, the closer we get to the end of the renovation (or at least the end of the major work) the tougher it gets.

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve experienced a few setbacks and frustrating situations.  For example:

• our kitchen cabinets are going to be two weeks late
• the fridge that we ordered back in June has been discontinued (and our custom kitchen was designed to fit that specific fridge)
• the weather has been crappy, so we haven’t been able to paint the front of our house
• the newly refinished tub (which we protected very carefully before tiling the bathroom) got some chips in it.

On the positive side, the bathroom tiling is going really well, we’ve selected a paint colour for our main floor and our couch is getting picked up to be reupholstered next week. 

We chose Benjamin Moore’s Ballet White for the living room, dining room, kitchen and hall:

And we bought this fabric from Designer Fabrics for our living room couch:

The problems we’ve experienced may not have seemed so frustrating earlier in the renovation, but after more than five months, we’re starting to get pretty tired.  So, despite the challenges, we’ll continue to push forward and hope for the best.  And, in a month we’ll finally be living in our new house!

Stairs and Stuff

Today, we continued sanding and priming.  With the help of Marilyn and Cody, we got tackled the staircase.  The plan for the stairs is:

• paint the spindles and stair risers white
• stain the banister, post and stair treads dark brown. 

Since we’re hiring a flooring company to refinish the hardwood floors on the second storey, we will get them to do the staining on the stairs.  We’re doing the painting ourselves. 

 

 

We also did some work on the built-in linen closet in the upstairs hallway.  We removed the hardware, sanded the drawers and door, and primed everything.  We plan to paint it white and add some updated drawer pulls.

Here’s the closet before:

And here’s what we’ve done so far:

Prime Time

After taking a bit longer than expected, the drywall is finally finished and we were able to start priming the walls.  Thanks to Jim, Rob, Chris and Shawn for all your help.  It’s finally starting to look like a real house!

  

The walls and ceilings are done.  Tomorrow we’ll move onto the stairs and trim.