Some significant milestones were reached today. Most of the trim work was painted the slightly off-white color we chose and one coat of the basil green was applied to part of the rear facade. Tomorrow will be interesting. They want to finish by the end of the workday, but I’m not sure that is possible. …
Priming appears to be finished, so everyone shifted to completing the caulking. Earlier there was a discussion of starting to spray on the trim color today. Nope. The sky went from what you can see in the above photo to pure black. The sounds of ladders thumping the side of the house and people scurrying …
Additional painters have shifted to priming. They have also started to caulk. The surprising part is that they are doing all of this by hand. It was explained to me that the primer has to go on thick in order to provide a good base, so brushes are used. Once they shift to the actual …
While most of the team continues to scrape off the old paint, a couple of painters have begun priming with a “commercial oil-based primer.” That should keep the new paint from peeling off as the old paint did.
At 7 a.m. approximately a half dozen people started scraping off the old paint. Twelve hours later they have about two-thirds of it done. The original schedule was prep work for up to two days and to start painting on the third. It’s possible, but I think it is likely that prep work will take …
A team of carpenters scoured the house for rotten wood and holes that squirrels could enter. After three days and a lot more money than I would have expected, the outside is ready to be prepped and painted. More good news: the paint company called and said they have a crew available next week if …
I posted earlier about the (semi) disaster while installing the foyer ceiling medallion. The living room went much better, mainly because Chelsea shamed me into not trying to install it by myself. I knew if I broke it after she told me to wait for her to help I’d be in big trouble. That was …
There is a lot of brass on and in the house, but the mailbox is flat-black, boxy, and ugly. I’m not sure when it was added, but I knew I wanted it to go even before we signed the contract. I also knew I wanted the replacement to be brass (or gold-colored) and look vintage. …
Let me start off by apologizing for subjecting you to the blue that is currently on our kitchen walls. That shade is featured in a Benjamin-Moore commercial as an example of a mistake: Enough of that. Chelsea’s brother was kind enough to keep my cat while we were living in Mexico and searching for a …
I posted about Chelsea’s walk-in closet/dressing room. It isn’t nearly as nice as the one she had in Atlanta, so I wanted to do something special for her. I replaced the normal light switch with one of these period-appropriate ones. There is something very satisfying about feel (and sound) of the buttons being pushed. Adding …