House Painting Project Part 3 - The Paint Reveal and Fixtures

I'm seriously hoping that no one was holding their breath waiting for this post.

And if they were....

I think it's safe to assume that they are no longer with us.

If you missed Part 1 and Part 2 click on the links there.

Go ahead.

We'll wait....

Okey dokey then.

Join me now for a phase where I imagined I was channeling Christo .

I call it Wrapped Windows.

Thoughtful and original huh?

I know.

Moments like this make my dad so proud that he put me through art school.

The incredibly handsome work crew did their thing while I watched with great appreciation.

I'm usually the follow up trim crew.

I know.  Multi talented.

I not only wrap but paint trim as well.

 Anyhooo.... we're loving the new color.

My excuse for the tardiness of this post is that I wanted to wait for the light fixtures.

Convenient huh?

So without further delay....

The motion lights near the garage door....

And the fixture that go near the doors...

Oh and some buckets of apples from the trees....

I'm sure you'll all sleep better now.

You're welcome.

Cath

The House Painting Project - Part 2

If you missed part one of the ever so simple paint-the-house project, you can find that here.

Soooo....

After a few days of the "plastic is our friend" phase...

We began to find insects the size of an air craft carrier.

We quickly moved on to my least favorite phase...

The "just put siding over the whole durn thing" phase.

I affectionately called our living room the Bat Cave.

Windowless places make me crazy.

So we were crazy but bugless...

Life is all about trade offs.

Thankfully three of the windows and a new door soon arrived.

I am totally lovin the living room windows.

When we first chose the windows for this house we thought that the gridded windows would give a little cottagey charm.

We always regretted that decision...at least for this side of the house.

The grids were constantly in the view.

So here we have the new and improved, slightly larger, gridless windows and the famous Door To Nowhere:

We've had a Deck Fund for a few years.  We keep adding to it in hopes of a future deck.

Every time we have a family party or graduation we wish there was way to connect our house to the backyard without having to go out the front door and go around.

So now that our youngest child will be graduating we are shooting for a deck by graduation.

For now it's the Door To Nowhere...

But we have hope people!

Dylan helped Rich a lot with this phase.

Collin had some lame excuse about a great job four hours away...

What?  Our windows don't trump a career move?



*sigh* We'll just have to make do.

We were still waiting on the boys' bathroom window and of course we decided that since every window on this side of the house was being replaced except one....

Well what was one more??

Are we certifiable yet?

And then....oh happy day!  The last two windows arrived!

We...we in the collective sense...meaning Rich and Dylan.....added the outer siding and some trim for good measure.

Ooooo ahhhh all the windows together at last:

Before:

After:

The gridded living room windows before:

No grids and the Door To Nowhere after:

 

We made some progress today toward getting paint ordered.

The forecast this weekend is for rain.

A prefect reason to put this off one more week dontcha think?

Next weekend is the goal.

I'll keep ya posted.

Cath

It All Began So Simply....Part 1

You know how it goes...

It's just a little house project....

In this case it actually started last summer.

We figured it was about time to paint the house and since Dylan would be around for the summer we could utilize the extra muscle power, he could earn some money, and we'd knock this puppy out.

But....we never did decide on a color so the summer came and went.

SO when this summer rolled around... we were totally on it.

We picked out the color.

Found a source....

And started scraping and prepping...


That was when we found out the laundry room door was rotted out....

As was the floor below it...

Collin was home too, so we took advantage of his love of problem solving.


The dude can figure anything out.

Sorry Col.

Do you feel used?

If it makes you feel any better Arik's dog, Duke, was feeling rather used too.

 
 
And well....

As long as we were replacing that door and the siding around it ...

We may as well replace the teeeeeeny window in the boys' bathroom...right next to the laundry room... and make it a bigger view window.

And so it began.



Next up we decided we may as well add that window we always wished for in the master bathroom.

Seriously.  For about eighteen years (but who's counting) we've been looking at this.

I know.  Not bad right?
And the thing is... I totally picked this house because of this bathroom.

First of all just the the fact that it had a master bathroom made me giddy.

I was totally over the charm of sharing a bathroom with four little boys.

And it had this great tub.

What more could an exhausted mother want?

Just the potential for sitting in a tub had me ready to sign on the dotted line.

But the thing is.....

Beyond that mirror... is an ocean view.

And every day we wished for a peeky hole.

And since Collin was having a great time cutting holes in our house we decided to go for it.

How cool is that?

Muuuuch mo betta!

Only we got so caught up in all the hole cutting we didn't actually have windows to put in the holes.

Details.

For for a while we were well ventilated.

Plastic sheeting was our friend.


And the saga continues...

We have now replaced two doors, four windows, added a new window and replaced all the siding on that side of the house.

I know, right?

And guess what?

No paint yet.

More coming soon...


Cath