Listed here are some extra home updates for you together with hanging the drywall and a few paint updates!

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Home Replace: Hanging The Drywall

The final three home replace weblog posts have been framing, roof, and home windows. The rooms have actually taken form prior to now few weeks as insulation was full and sheetrock was put in in a single actually thrilling and quick day! 

Earlier than:

After framing:

Hanging The Drywall

It’s unimaginable how a lot larger this house is (I did use a large angle picture nevertheless.) 

The view from the kitchen nook

Earlier than:

Hanging day:

Drywall full:

That’s a utility closet within the mudroom and the pantry to the suitable right here:

After one coat of paint. Prepared for hardwood flooring!

That is the pure colour our complete home’s hardwoods shall be as soon as they’re refinished:

Drywall stepping into upstairs

Toilet Earlier than:

Toilet with Drywall:

The Basement

They’ve additionally repaired the drywall on this nook of the basement that needed to get plumbing fixes:

And right here the place the ceiling was partially taken down:

Now that the mud has settled (actually) we are able to begin engaged on organizing the basement once more. It’s SUCH a large number!!

The Hearth

And our hearth has additionally been up to date! Thomas framed / drywalled a face entrance on it so we are able to have conduit behind for our new Body TV : ) 

After drywall got here the paint crew!

That is only a primer coat, however it positive appears to be like much more completed. The black home windows are wanting higher and higher!!

Earlier than:

Right this moment:

Earlier than:

Right this moment:

Paint Deliberation

We’ve been going forwards and backwards on paint colours for weeks. Lastly we swatched them and the winners had been clear. It’s been an actual goldilocks impact of “too yellow” (my worst worry) or “too grey.” Add to our confusion that each Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore each make paint colours referred to as Pure White and Alabaster which are very completely different in nature! 

I met with my good friend Danielle who’s an inside designer to debate a few of our accent colours (island, barn door, bed room wall, entrance door). She had some nice factors and opinions which was a lot appreciated as a result of I’m SO indecisive! 

The blueish colour on the suitable is Ben Moore Pure White which is most undoubtedly not a pure white! The colour within the center is Sherwin Williams Pure White. 

Our resolution is Chantilly Lace on each the skin and the within! It’s a really impartial white with out yellow or blue and that’s what we would like. 

Chantilly Lace / White Dove / BM Alabaster

White Dove (center) wanting method too yellow and BM Alabaster (proper) wanting very grey in night gentle. Chantilly Lace is white on a regular basis!

Entrance Door Trim

I’ve been questioning for weeks if we should always take down the quaint and ornate trim across the entrance door and put up one thing quite simple and fashionable as a substitute. Thomas instructed me it will be too troublesome and we should always simply go away it. 

Then the subsequent day I drove by the home and did a double take as a result of he was taking it down proper then and there!

Now we get to take a look at crimson brick for weeks (months?) till we paint the outside within the house stretch : – ) 

Thomas is having a number of enjoyable “carrying his device belt” after a few years of doing an excessive amount of workplace work. He usually spends the primary half of his day on the enterprise facet of the enterprise and the late afternoons and weekends on the home. I’ll be glad to have him house on the early facet once more when that is throughout : )

SEE ALL OF THE RENOVATION POSTS HERE. 

FOLLOW ALONG IN REAL TIME ON INSTAGRAM HERE. 

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