Friday, March 7, 2008

Trim and Fired Contractors

I'm hoping to have a reason to post twice this weekend, but in case I run out of time, I'll get one up now! The big development since the last posting is that we are officially done with our contractors. After almost 6 months of torture and still an unfinished house, we signed an addendum to end our contract. This means we're on our own, which is such a relief at this point. This means no more drama with workers not showing up, ridiculous mistakes and careless work. It also means that we've got a lot of work to do, but I think we can handle it.

Two weekends W turned out about 30 headers for the doors and windows. We wanted to recreate the original trim that was in the house. That meant about 20 cuts per header. He also eased the edge of each piece of trim that'll go on the side of the doors. A little bit insane, but it'll be beautiful.



The trim factory:




At this point, we're probably a week or 2 away from moving upstairs to our bedroom. We don't want to move up there until there's a fully functional bathroom, and since that's about a week away, we're trying to knock out a lot of the painting before the trim is done. I've been working on priming the walls this week, and tomorrow my dad is coming down to help us paint those 5 rooms.

Here's a sneak peak of the master bath color. I slapped some paint up there before the toilet was installed to avoid a trickier painting job.




And since a few people have asked for it, here's a shot of my growing belly! 3 months to go!