Day 21

In the last post, the living room wall was ripped out.  Now that has been insulated, drywalled, and spackled.  The walls in the upstairs bathroom seem just about done too.  Today Josh was thinking of putting up the wainscoting and maybe the floor tiles today.  We decided to heat the floors in both bathrooms, so that would be something he has to install before the floor tiles go on, obviously.
Then I get to start painting the walls.  Josh agreed purple.  He found a discounted can of dark purple for $9, so we are going to add some white paint to lighten it up.

Yesterday, he and my dad went to a Habitat for Humanity resale store in Medina.  They have many things for sale at discounted prices that they don't need for their houses.  Josh bought quite a bit, including some lighting and tile for the downstairs bath.  I didn't really like the fixture he bought for the dining room, so I went out to Lowe's to buy the one I was in love with and he is going to use the other one in the garage.  Fancy.  So then Josh put me in charge of buying all the light fixtures, which I thinks makes up both happy.  Today I ordered lights for the bedrooms and hallway from 1800lighting.com.  I still need to get lights for the kitchen and downstairs bathroom and recessed lights for the living room.  I'm not sure how large the vanity downstairs is going to be, so I'll hold off on that for a while. 

I think yesterday was mostly spent burning wood.  There was a large pile on the back porch for flooring and trim that had been ripped out.  I'm glad to get that cleaned up.  I like to have things clean and organized, but that is often hard to do on a construction site.

Here is something you can help me out with.  The color of our bedroom.  I kind of have no idea.  Our furniture is black and our bedding is bright yellow, gray and dark blue.  Penelope's room will be yellow and Oliver's will be gray.  I don't want anything too dark because the room isn't very big.  I also don't want any color that would be found in a nursery, like yellow or blue (or pink).

I hope to go over to the house later today and see what everyone is doing.  Maybe I'll take another video.  It's a lot easier than taking a bunch of pictures.  Plus, the captions are built in. ;)


UPDATE
I went to the house just before dinner and we cut drywall and spackled it out in the living room around the outlets and all.  It took about 90 minutes.  I also took a picture of the other side of the living room wall where it's finished.