Day 76 - Trim started

We finally got our painting done to get some color in the house instead of all the beige that was included.
Trim guys started and got our interior doors hung. Not all have knobs installed yet or trim around the frames. They are coming back Friday to finish up. The electricians were back and got most of the outlets, switches, wall plates, and lights installed. It's really starting to look like a real house on the inside now.

 exterior lights on garage.

 recessed porch lights and door light

 master vanity light

 permanent electric installed

Day 70 - custom painting

Just been been doing our painting this week before trim goes up next week. Our solid tops were measured yesterday and will be cut within a week or so. Installation set for Aug. 12th.

 Living room / office has been painted a pastel green. Bright and cheery for Rene.

 One of the spare bedrooms is painted a darker green. Picture looks much brighter.

FALSE ADVERTISING!!!

 The picture above shows what Mcdonald's advertises their Sundaes to look like.
The picture below shows what the Mcdonald's on Everhard Rd in Canton provides to their customers.
Someone should be ashamed that this is all the pride they could muster in their work! Thanks McD-bags!

Day 65 - Cabinets installed and we painted colors.

Today our cabinets got installed. We went with Maple stained "Kona".
We were there painting colors over the standard beige.

Big Daddy rolling the entryway from garage after Buddy Bill trimmed the room.

Buddy Bill Trimming the accent wall in great room. Notice the OSHA approved use of his ladder.

 Accent wall rolled and Petey looking dazed and confused... again.

 Kitchen cabinets starting to go in.

 Me putting 1st coat yellow over yellow primer in sun room.

 Me and Cameron discussing how to make the wall cap look at stairwell.

 My wife said she would paint the purple in the master bedroom. This is as far as she got.
(Actually I turned her loose with a roller later. She did her fair share for a newbie :)

Trimming continues in master bedroom.

My dad joining the fray - rolling 1 of the accent walls.

 Mother in the kitchen. Can't wait until she can use it to cook dinner! (please?)

 Sample of quartz top we decided to use in kitchen.

Wishing it was all over and ready for move in.

Day 64 - Walls painted - Doors and trim being painted.

The interior walls are painted. One coat of primer tinted to match the paint color and 1 additional coat of paint on top.

 We are going tomorrow to add some color to the beige walls. We told our painter earlier in the week we were painting our sun room yellow. He happened to have some from a previous job and as a pleasant surprise, painted his 2nd coat of paint as yellow instead of beige. The wife was EXTREMELY happy to see it.

 Interior doors being painted white and staged in garage.

 Trim pieces painted white.

Gone native.

I've officially gone native.
When my dreams have turned from a Camaro to a tractor, something is seriously wrong. A farmer comes to cut our field grass (and the neighbors') for hay. Saves us mowing acreage and he gets free hay. I have a terrible case of tractor envy watching him cruise around my field in his air conditioned tractor. Didn't know tractor envy even existed. It does.

Even the front tires are on steroids!!!

Day 63 (July 18th)

Painting has continued this week. The house walls are getting wrapped up. Now the painter will starting spraying the trim boards and interior doors soon. Our cabinets are in the garage and scheduled to be installed this Saturday. We will be painting some of our walls Saturday to give them some color. We just went with the standard beige from Wayne Homes in the whole house. That will be a good base for us to paint over here and there.

This past Tuesday my excavator stopped out to cover up the water line trench since I got the pipe through the wall last weekend. Spent way too much time out in the 90+ degree heat moving dirt with my trusty rake as we filled some of the low areas against the house walls where rain likes to collect. It's either a soaked swamp down there or a parched Hell. Maybe we'll have a nice fall this year. Maybe.

Had a landscaper come down last night to ballpark a price for spreading seed. He said $4k to $5k. We parted company. Waiting on another quote to come in. Hoping for something more reasonable or I'm calling in all my markers for free computer repair all these years in exchange for grass seed and straw spreading!!
Get ready everyone!

Day 58 (July 13th)

This Saturday the painter was down working on the house. He was priming the walls with primer tinted the color of our final paint (beige). It's nice to see it starting to really come together.

I spent the day knocking a hole through my block wall to run a PVC sleeve for the water line to come through. I had to dig out a big muck hole on the outside which wasn't too fun. I drilled the inside of the wall first. Then drilled a hole through the center of my knockout to the outside wall so I knew where to drill from outside. No room to work on the outside and very muddy. Plus Knocking out the hole on the outside wall was harder since the large socket I used on the inside as a punch decided to make it's permanent home inside my block wall. Oops! Looks like I owe my brother a socket.

Water pipe running through PVC sleeve with foam sealant and black tar sealant to keep ground water out.

I graveled the pit for better drainage in case water makes it down this far through soil.

 Tinted primer bringing some color to the walls.

 Buddy keeping front porch safe.

♫♫♫Blame it on the rain... ♫♫♫

What? You miss seeing videos of the torrential rains Bolivar has to offer? Feast your peepers on this:

Our Heat Pump is attached, waiting for electrical hookup.

Day 55 - Ceilings textured

2 guys textured all my ceilings today, including the garage. Instead of the standard stomp, we paid extra to get a "knockdown" pattern. Everyone does it a little different. These look good but the pics are hard to see and it still being wet doesn't help. I'll upload better pics when it is dry.

Cabinets showed up and are sitting in the garage. Interior doors are in the basement. Base trim is staged in great room.

Another "End-of-Days" storm came through today. I have a moat around my house right against my foundation wall. Once again (too many to count at this point), I went out and hand dug trenches to release water away from the wall. When the stone guys were working their footsteps packed the dirt at the wall so the water has a natural place to fill and sit. I hate Ohio weather.

 Stripes on ceiling are due to wet/dry spots.