Painting

After the framing, electrical wiring and gas piping were completed we hung the insulation. The insulation went very quickly. It is an itchy job, but it didn't take but a couple of days. The inspector came in and we were ready to hang drywall.
Eric Read came over and we started to instal the ceilings first. It took us two evenings, with Eric and I holding the sheets up while Christoher screwed them in place. He also cut out the openings for the lighting. I still don't know how his notes worked, but he located and cut out the solatube skylights after the ceilings were in. They are all that remains of the old diningroom Mom and Dad had.



The walls went up easier, Eric, Hunter and Jonny helped get the panels in place while we screwed them in.
Next we started the taping and mudding and sanding the walls to a smooth finish. We decided to go with a smooth because the existing bedrooms were all finished that way.
Jonny came over and covered the livingroom walls with a thin coat ot drywall mud to smooth out the orange peal texture that room had. After that Tara, Kay, and Matt came over and helped us paint the livingroom. Chris and I were busy sanding to keep ahead of them. That became the pattern for finishing the rest of the walls. We were busy sanding while the primer was painted on right after us.




This is David painting the ceiling in Mom and Dad's old room. It was the the last of the bedrooms to get paint. The old flooring and base boarding were removed.
The last rain uncoverd a new problem, the garage roof drains into the small lawn area behind that room and enough water collects to flood the bedroom. This has been going on for sometime. We had a lot of wall work to due to repair the south bedroom wall.

We will need to decide how to fix that. I'm not sure how I'll get that into he budget. It needs a gutter-drain system and or a slab poured.

Michael came home from BYU Hawaii for Christmas and David is home between semesters from BYU Idaho. Between Christmas and New Years we were all the painting. Even Sean Rohrberg joined in for a couple of days.



With the painting done the cabinets are going in! They are a dark red cherry finish. It looks really good with the sage green walls.

I'll soon have photos of the cabinets and interior doors!