Day 218

Josh got the backyard filled in and everything plumbed.  He just has to make a cement lid for one of the tanks.  Plywood is a temporary solution.  In the picture below, you can also see the deck construction.  It's going to be 18 feet out from the house and probably 12 feet wide.  We are going to have two sets of stairs, one on each side rather than right out front.

 

 

Josh was sanding the walls in the bathroom so I kept bust be sanding some cabinet doors that had been missed.  Most of the doors have 2 coats on the front and one on the back.  The front need at least 3 total and I'm not as concerned with the back of the doors, so probably 2 would do it.  That's about to be my next project. After I finish the bathroom.

 

Speaking of the bathroom.... it's purple!  We had a discounted can of super dark purple and added white to it to lighten it up.  We just kind of eye-balled it.  It is dark, but I think it will look fine since the bottom half of the room is white.  I don't think I would have ever painted it that dark from floor to ceiling.

 

 

 

The first coat of purple is on.  Then I need to paint the ceiling before the final coat goes on the walls.

 

Josh managed to get the dishwasher (and stove) in the house by himself.  The fridge is ready, but that is a two man job.  He finished installing all of the bottom cabinets.  

 

 

The cement board is going up and getting ready for our pour-in-place cement counter tops.  I ordered the counter molds the day after we bought the house.  He has most of the back molds placed.  Everything is just sitting there though.  The front molds still need measured and placed.  It is so exciting that we are getting close to having real counters! 

 

The counter tops are exciting, but not only for us.  We have had a few people ask about them or if they can help and learn how to do it.  I'm still toying around with what color I want.  I was just going to do a gray, but now I'm thinking of white with marble swirls of gray to make it look more like granite.  It's more work to put on Josh so it's really up to him, but I think he's ok with doing it.  He's quite the artist too, so I know he can handle it. 

And after the counter tops come backsplash!  Wow, things are really coming together.