They are finished painting. Wait, what? Yep, that's what I said. When we started this week, I thought we'd be in decent shape by week's end, but certainly not done. I was hoping for the end of this next week, when we're scheduled to have the driveway done. Bob clearly lit a fire under someone's behind because after a few really long days of very hard work - they walked out of here on Friday afternoon and took their paint brushes with them. And all of a sudden, I could see all of my house - there were no piles of tools, no buckets, no gallons of paint, no red paper covering the floors, no sheets of plastic dangling in doorways, no clumps of joint compound on the walls.
As in,
you can move your stuff in now .....
Just what went down this week? Well, they were working in pretty much every room of our house - except for the kids' bedroom and the bathrooms. Carlos, along with either Lusvi or Leo, was painting the living room, first floor hallway, dining room, kitchen, stairs, and upstairs hallway. Byron was back to do some closets, door hardware, attic steps and other assorted carpentry. Mike the electrician and/or his guys were by to hook up more lighting and finish up some thermostats and other outlets and switches.
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| Finishing trim around pocket doors |
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| Prepping dining room/ kitchen area (there goes my work space!) |
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| Sanding with the shop vac (much appreciated!) |
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| Byron switching hardware on mudroom door |
At this point, it was Thursday - Halloween! - and with a bit of "encouragement" from Bob (ahem), Carlos and Leo worked like crazy all day. They were just cleaning up at the time we were getting ready to take the kids out trick or treating.
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| Leo cleaning up after Carlos banged out the dining room in a day (notice the new shade of green?!) |
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| A pink kitty and Army guy ready for some candy! |
After leaving my house at around 5:30pm Thursday, Carlos was back at 7:30am on Friday to finish it off. And that is exactly what he did!
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| Happy to be trying out her fancy shoes on the new floors upstairs |
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| Carlos pulling up the paper on the first floor |
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| All cleaned up! |
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| The mudroom, all ready for our stuff! |
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| Gleaming! |
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| Living room/family room |
So, what's left? Well ... the exciting (albeit a little daunting) task of moving in! And, punchlist stuff for Bob and the guys - a few things here and there. Plus, Julio will be back to do a new walk to the mudroom before they do the driveway later in the week ....
Stay tuned .....
