My camera is full of photos of all of the little projects that Matt's been knocking off on the addition over the last two weeks. All of the projects he's been working on that wanted to get in the ground before frost are either done, or missed it ;) so his work load has been light enough to give him some good chunks of time to work on *our* stuff! So instead of little snips here and there, here's the last eight days all at once:
November 8th:
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| I went outside on this (not too cold) Saturday to find my husband putting up the shutters!! I've been so excited to see these go up! |
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| Testing out the mounting height on the upper level ones. And making sure we really want them up there. This is one of the lovely give-and-takes of marriage. Although we very much designed the addition together, there are some places on the house where we went with Matt's preferences, and this is one place where he allowed me mine. ;) That big blank peak seems so naked, and a little more green helps to balance it out to my eye. |
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| More or less finished. Also a good shot of the big dead tree that we had taken down. This one was not one for Chad to do. ;) |
November 11:
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| Matt's gone so quickly at mudding and taping the sheet rock in the basement that I don't think I've hardly taken any photos of it. Anyway, it's done, and he primed the whole thing, then he and I painted all the main color first coat, then he got the second coat on and started painting the one spot where we're bringing in the Earthtone color we like so much. |
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| In the back corner, lights are all in, and it's taped off for the other darker color of paint. |
November 15:
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| And here's the other color in there, and the door is trimmed out, and there's some baseboard in! It suddenly feels like a real room down there! We need to do more sanding and varnishing before we can finish out the room, but there really aren't that many working hours left. |
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| Then, yesterday Matt decided to tackle the transition between the old and the new. We've had the floor threshold temporarily in for three months now, but just rough studs and metal lath, etc, for the rest of it. Not pretty. Also not safe for balloons being carried by children. We've lost a few that way. |
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| But no more of that! Look - there's Matt nailing in the side jambs, and before the afternoon was over he had the trim around both sides of the door, too. I don't have a picture of it all completed, but might stick one in here once I get one taken. If I remember. |
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| Guess what - I remembered! Both to take the photos, and to put them up in this post. ;) And you get not one, but two. This is looking from the existing house (school/computer room) into the addition. Someday the lovely wireless wires will not be casually draped across the opening suspended from the hardware from the old roman shade from when this was a window to the outdoors. |
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| And this is looking from the new living room through the link into the school/computer room. All of the other window and door trim in the house is wider at the top than at the sides, but because of the way the opening worked out here, we needed to make it the same on the top and sides. These are the kinds of things that most people wouldn't notice (though now you all will since I'm taking the time to point it out!) but sticks out like crazy to crazy people like us who pay attention to things like trim widths. Oh well. ;) Part of good design, I believe, is doing the best with the parameters you're given. |
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| And then last night before (a slightly late) bedtime, Matt and I got the wood floor at the bottom of the stair installed! This runs along the bottom of the stair and turns the corner to go under where the shelf will be built in for the project area. Someday. |
We're looking forward to sometime next spring, hopefully, having it all finished, and having an open house so everyone who's worked on it in some way, and anyone else who's interested, can come and see how it's turned out!
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