28 Days Sooner

Windstorms, hail, and termites? Not a chance against this house:

Pretty!  I think we get shutters too, but I might be hallucinating.

To be fair, termites could technically get to the 2x4s and floor joists, but whatever.  We won't tell them that.

Here are a couple of pictures of the house in transition of getting fully bricked (them not being in chronological order is irritating me very much right now, but I'm too lazy to reword my entire blog post so that I'm not cringing momentarily).

That scaffolding is scary as heck.

The back of the house.  Nolan's sand pile was used to install
the bricks. 

While the bricklayers have been busting their butts getting it finished, I've been on the inside painting (although it's important to note, NOT at the same time as them).

Living room.

The same living room.  (Note the fireplace on the right)

I decided it was probably worth investing in a plastic drop cloth
to cover the new cabinets.

It is much easier painting in the daylight than by floodlight.

Front foyer (I think this looks great just the way it is).

Today I painted for about seven hours. I didn't get as much done as I had hoped I would, but I still made significant progress.  When I showed up this morning, I was pleased to see tile in the bathrooms and laundry room.

Master bath.  I think that by having diagonal
tile and the little strip of glass fancy tiles cost
us an additional $600.  Ouch.

Master bath cabinets.

Master bath.  Clever idea to lay cardboard
down over the floor tile.  That probably could
have helped me when I was laying tile in the old
house (it would have saved a LOT of headaches
and blood and sweat and tears).

Guest bath.  The standard lay of the tile (what
comes with the flat price) is either staggered like
the lower half of the wall, or checkered.  Adding in
any kind of extra tile, or even switching the direction
from horizontal to diagonal cost extra.

Do we get to remove this after we're the homeowners, or is
this like those warnings on sofas?

Detail of the guest bathroom.

This is the pattern we chose.  We both had
to initial it.

Guest bath cupboard.

Underneath that piece of cardboard is the tile
in the laundry room. (or a trapdoor leading to
a tunnel.  I forget what our contract states.)

Sophie and Nolan's bathroom cabinet.

The same tile work upstairs as downstairs in the guest bath.

 Before I left, I took a picture of our outside brick by the front door.  So pretty!

Outside brick by the front door.