Siding....CHECK

We can check siding off our list! We finished it up this weekend and got the house primed. We will be painting the outside Wednesday! After weeks of temperatures in the 80's and 90's it cooled down to rainy 60 degree days. Boy was I nervous that fall had come to the Great Northwest! It warmed up to the 80's again so we kicked it into gear and got a bunch of outside work done.

I'm having a problem uploading pictures to the blog site. I will post some as soon as I get this "technology" figured out.

Cabinets

The cabinets are in the process of installation. The company will be making new doors and replacing the other ones. We have found a few adjustments we need to make. These will come after the installation is complete.

Already repainting!

David absolutely did not like the purple paint in the dining room, so it is now rust. I'm glad I took a picture before because I liked the way it looked. Here's what the dining room looks like now.

Bad House Day

Some people have bad hair days. Well, David and I had a bad house day. The cabinets arrived today. With anticipation I walked into the house to see them and the first thing I noticed is the style of the doors is wrong. I wanted a shaker style door with a straight edge both on the outside and the inside of the frame. While the cabinets look nice, this is not the door I was expecting to see. David rushed over to cut the expansion lines in the concrete and first discovered the back porch is not square. (It's off by three inches.) Second, he frantically pulled the forms from the concrete, struck the chalk lines, got the saw, pulled the starter twice, and the rope broke. The lines won't be cut tonight.

Here's some of the rooms

Things are coming together at the house. Lights, outlets and switches are being installed. Rooms are getting ready for flooring and we are NOT ready for school. How can we stay at the house til 9:00 each night when the kids need to be in bed at 8:00? We have been eating around 9:30 each night lately! I really like the light fixtures I choose. I forgot what they looked like when I picked the paint colors and they go together very well. (Almost like I new what I was doing!)
The pink/brown room is Michelle's
The tan/purple is the dining room
The green/purple room is Susannah's
The green room is Richard's
The blue-green room with the light fixture is the powder bath.

Frozen Mike's and plaid

Last weekend I had help from Dad, Kim, Laurie, Mariah, Bryce, and Trisha along with my family painting the inside of the house. We were expecting cabinets the following Tuesday so we busted some paint cans and frozen Mike's hard limeade open and got to work. Fortunately, more painting was done than drinking! We started in the kid's area then moved west. I am fortunate to have the help of friends, thanks a bunch!

The "S" is Susannah's mark. She painted that in every room she worked on.