So back to those construction pics....

Well, right after the drywaller finished sanding it was time to start finsihing up the inside of the house. We faux finished about 90% of the walls in the entire house. Now, if you EVER talked to a faux finisher and had them price a room or a floor, well they are just FRICKING NUTS. We had a quote for the bathroom on the second floor.....$5,300.00. So we tried several of the guys to see who could paint and it turned out we found two....only two out of thirty four guys. Faux finishing is easy enough, just takes time and patience. We sprayed the wall with joint compound and left it dry, instead of knocking it down, then we run a putty knife over it, to take off the high spots. Then a base coat, then the second coat, then wipe it off before it dried....WOW it's cool.

I have never been known for doing it by the book.....square straight walls...BORING.
So I thought it would be cool to have part of the wall pop out at the bottom but allow an area for a picture to hang...

I had an idea in the middle of the night, that is why I always keep a note pad next to the bed just for these moments. You know, you wake up in the morning and know you had a great idea but can't remember what the devil it was. How about making a platform about one step high and tile it, then put a nice stainless trim around the edge........we'll see!

Instead of having a company come and do a template and taking 6 weeks to make a counter top, we bought the Corian from a distributor and worked them into counter tops onsite. They come in 30" by 12 foot sheet at about 700 bucks a sheet....the side cuts are used to create more depth on the edges.....that only requires a zillion clamps....

Quality inspections are always important in every project....Thumper is in charge of this...since she is the tallest of the three.....hehe

The cabinets were shipped without the rippled frosted glass inserts, now you would think this won't be a problem....think again. It took about 5 months to straighten this out....ending in a shouting match.

Baseboards and door trim is being installed.....instead of buying pre-stained trim we bought clear lumber and made the stuff ourselves. Ripped it, shaped it, sanded it, stained it, stained it again, varished it, varished it again and then varished it one more time. Everything is also clued in addition to being nailed.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this picture....just some planks that have been stained and varished from the basement. Everyone was told to watch their step and not to step on them....WELL!!!

We had a alert security as it seems we have freeloader visiting at night.....at least they keep the place clean.....RACOON ALERT....