Back in the basement!

No, we haven't quit working on the house. It just took awhile to finish up outside. That is my kitchen window. Dave decided to surprise me by putting up a couple of birdfeeders.

Just trying to give the house a homey touch. This is the back porch area.

We did get the garage moved. What a HUGE job!

Those cabinets are heavy. We moved one at a time, one day at a time. HEAVY I tell ya.

My little area in the garage. The bottom half. I'm still trying to talk him into the top half!

The siding is finished on the front porch. We're getting there.....little at a time. Still need to do the porch floors and columns.

But for now...we are back in the basement. This is O.S.B. It's heavy. We hauled in about 15 sheets of it to be put on the walls. We are only using drywall in the living area of the basement. The storage areas, pantry, and mechanical room will be O.S.B.

Which is made in the USA!

Cindy

Now it's done...

Dave finally got the garage door openers hung. This was a big ordeal, as was the rails to hold the garage doors, because he had to make them. Why? Because of this vaulted ceiling. I think I told you we tried to cancel the vaulted ceiling, but we were too late because the trusses were already made.


Well the rails and the openers were one of the reasons why we tried to cancel it. It's one of those things that works in theory (or for the architect - it looks good) but actually DOING IT is very difficult. The slant on the ceiling makes it impossible to use regular brackets. Dave made all of the brackets (whatever you call them). Look in the above two pics and you can see where the brackets are different lengths and the garage door opener bracket is slanted and different lengths. It took a lot of figuring and reconfiguring and then he made the brackets. They turned out great. He can just make anything.

Then I had to get on that damned scaffolding again and do some touch up on the paint.

You can see the splotches. Why damned? Because I hit my head, hard, on one of those lights. I'm just real tired of this garage. I'm over it...Done and over it! I spewed bad words when I hit my head. Well, I thought I was going to fall off the damned scaffolding! I didn't fall, but sometimes you just gotta curse. It's the construction worker in me!

I also had to cover the nail holes on trim around the windows (5 total) and doors (3 doors).

DONE!

(except I noticed while I was on the scaffolding that one of those light fixtures needs fixed...but that is HIS job. I'm done!)

Cindy

The Garage is almost finished.

Did I ever show you the garage doors with the hardware on them?

And if you look inside, you'll see the lights are all hung.

The trim is finished around the windows...

and doors.

This light is on a motion detector so when we walk in, it'll automatically come on.

It's an old light that Dave fixed up.

More window pics.

I finished touching up the trim and painted over the nails that he hung the trim with. It gives it a finished look.

Whoops looks like I missed a spot.

Or is it???????

YUP! It is!!! I'm telling you I painted around it....but if it would have jumped on me, I would have been in a body cast about right now because I was standing on the top board of the scaffolding!

Cindy

Trim and hauling

The only thing we've been doing lately is hauling stuff to the new house from the old house. It'll take me a long time to get it all moved.....and putting up trim in the garage.

Whoops sorry about the sideways pic!

And that's all folks....

Cindy

Storage room done! Garage painted! WOOHOO!

I've been so busy painting and packing I haven't had time to update the blog...so here goes.

The storage/wood shop room is done. Remember the skinny trim that was going to go in the garage? yup...here it is, in the storage room. Dave has changed his mind about the garage trim as much as I do with paint colors. I buy all of my paint at Sherwin Williams (SW)I've had experiences with cheaper paint and I always go back to SW. I can get good quality paint, and cover the room once, or buy cheaper paint, and paint it twice. It's happened to me before, so I'm pretty committed to good paint. So, when I try to decide on a color, I don't want to change it because one gallon is $43.00. And OSB takes twice as much paint because it soaks in. I think I used three gallons in the storage room. The good news is SW is having a sale this weekend on paint...40% off. So, I'm making some decisions on color for quite a few areas in the basement.

But back to the storage room.....it's done....

Dave went ahead and put the trim up. The reason the outlets are this high off the floor is because that is wood shop table height.

And there is no ceiling up because this room is right below the kitchen upstairs. We have a lot of plumbing to do for the kitchen that will come in below the ceiling.

He put an electric baseboard heater in this room, just in case we need it for storage items, and in case he needs it for working in here later on.

We will have gas heat. And someday we'd like to put in one of those outdoor wood burner furnaces. But in the basement we are just putting in electric baseboard heat. We are doing that because there are many rooms that will not need to be heated unless we happen to be in them for some reason. And we don't want to heat the entire basement when we aren't in it.

Now to the garage. Last weekend Dave hung a couple of light fixtures. He got a skid of these fixtures at a school auction a few years ago and rewired them. They were originally gymnasium lighting. He's putting them in the garage.

He put a couple of them up on the painted side of the garage just to see what they look like.

And last weekend I trimmed all of the walls in the garage, so this week when I went to paint the ceiling, and Pa came to push me around on the scaffolding, he could roll the walls.

Lots of trimming.

And everything went as planned.

I painted the ceiling, while Pa painted the walls and pushed me around.

No more heart...

But not to worry...I left Dave a little message above the garage doors.

It's on a piece of wood trim above the garage doors under a rod that is part of the door opener attachment.

We got it done. It took six days of painting and two days of trimming.

Here's how happy I am! Take your right arm and hold it above your head....now look up....and hold that position for three to four hours. Take a day off to give your muscles a break, then get back in that position, after you climb up the scaffolding of course! I'm HAPPY it's done!!!

Look how pretty.

Every artist signs their work right?

Of course it'll be covered up with trim, but we still leave a lot of notes.

Wonder what he's thinking about? Sad that he's done painting...what could he write on this window sill.....

wishin' he were fishin'!!!!!

I'll tell you what I'm thinking. WOOHOO this garage is painted!!!

Margarita time!!!!

Cindy Bee