Week of May 20-27
First thing to notice is the house ABOVE, in the header, that is OUR house, I just tweaked this image...
...with the proper color door (taken from a neighbor's house with the same color scheme). I'm hoping the door is painted soon, but it actually may be a last minute thing as it could get dinged from moving things in and out, although I would think they'd use the garage door, mostly...but what do I know? I've been wrong about everything with this house! HAHA, they make all these mistakes and I catch most of them, but I never know WHEN they'll do things, that timing of the process and why/how certain things are done is still somewhat of a mystery to me!
Speaking of mistakes...the mistake this week is that they painted the garage doors the same color as the body of the house, not the lighter color seen in the picture. In actuality the color of the doors now is darker than it's SUPPOSED to be, because, as you know, a lighter color can not easily cover a darker color, so the color kind of shows through and we end up with this darker garage. Oh well, just another "problem" to deal with. Although, in a way, it's good. We'll be the ONLY house in the neighborhood with that color garage door AND we have more coats than others, so any scratch on the door will expose a dark green, instead of the white primer. Why is that good? Well, that white primer poking out from under a scratch is a lot more noticable than the dark green. So, I'll let that one go...although I wish they'd get the edges covered better, since they didn't mask it so well when they repainted it.
Anyway, here's the back of the house, too. Man, it's looking good!! (Please ignore the differing colors (it looks more like the front of the house picture)...I don't manually set the white balance and don't take the time to edit it properly in some post-processing to make everything match, so this second one is a bit color saturated.)
This exterior painting happened earlier in the week and at the same time they were also working inside! Last week they hung the drywall and got everything textured. This week they installed floor-moulding, windowsills, door trim, primed all that wood and PAINTED everything inside...Well, we didn't see the ceilings painted yet, but I'm guessing they put on second coats of things today and maybe did the ceilings...or that'll be next week. We'll see tomorrow when we go visit.
Here are some pictures from the week, relatively in order of time when happened.
Just the workers painting the exterior.
First they delivered the moulding and placed it around the house where needed...and it's needed in areas with carpeting...hardwood is installed and the moulding goes on top of that. Carpeting is streched under/by the moulding.
Then they start hanging it everywhere, like around the front door.
And here's the windowsills and floor moulding.
And the upstairs is all set, too!
After all the moulding is in, they spray a coat of primer over just about everything, it seemed, the moulding and the textured drywall, as can be seen on our master bedroom fireplace mantel.
As alluded to above, our ceilings will be a different color than the walls. They will match the moulding, actually. That is a Personal Modification Request (PMR, to those in the know). They normally, as a standard, paint all one color for walls and ceilings, but to pay for the additional paint color, and moreso for the masking of the walls while they paint the ceilings, they charge more...so, at the start they just overspray on the ceilings.
So, besides missing the flooring, this is what the inside of the house looks like. Again, the color isn't perfect, especially since everyone's lighting by their PC monitors is different and the difference in monitor's colors, etc...but this time I tried a bit to get the color right...The walls are called Whole Wheat and the moulding is painted Antique White.
Last pic for the week, here is that neighbor's door...this will be the color of our door. We liked the models darkish red, but this rich/vibrant orangey color (Sherwin Williams, Spicy Hue) will be pretty cool!
One last thing to mention, then I'm done. On Saturday we had our LAST appointment with The Style House to choose window coverings. Yeah, we went mostly with faux wood blinds and letting them do it for a few reasons, mostly to have all living spaces READY for the move in date! We don't want to be working on the house, except unpacking, those first few weeks, so we just want to be comfortable!
So, that's our last meeting to discuss options, so we got a stamp stating, "Final Puchase Pring" on the last signed contract...so we finally know our new home's final price! YAY!!! We're only 1200 over the budget we allowed ourselves, so that's not too bad, especially when we hear stories of people going 20-30k over budget!
...with the proper color door (taken from a neighbor's house with the same color scheme). I'm hoping the door is painted soon, but it actually may be a last minute thing as it could get dinged from moving things in and out, although I would think they'd use the garage door, mostly...but what do I know? I've been wrong about everything with this house! HAHA, they make all these mistakes and I catch most of them, but I never know WHEN they'll do things, that timing of the process and why/how certain things are done is still somewhat of a mystery to me!
Speaking of mistakes...the mistake this week is that they painted the garage doors the same color as the body of the house, not the lighter color seen in the picture. In actuality the color of the doors now is darker than it's SUPPOSED to be, because, as you know, a lighter color can not easily cover a darker color, so the color kind of shows through and we end up with this darker garage. Oh well, just another "problem" to deal with. Although, in a way, it's good. We'll be the ONLY house in the neighborhood with that color garage door AND we have more coats than others, so any scratch on the door will expose a dark green, instead of the white primer. Why is that good? Well, that white primer poking out from under a scratch is a lot more noticable than the dark green. So, I'll let that one go...although I wish they'd get the edges covered better, since they didn't mask it so well when they repainted it.
Anyway, here's the back of the house, too. Man, it's looking good!! (Please ignore the differing colors (it looks more like the front of the house picture)...I don't manually set the white balance and don't take the time to edit it properly in some post-processing to make everything match, so this second one is a bit color saturated.)
This exterior painting happened earlier in the week and at the same time they were also working inside! Last week they hung the drywall and got everything textured. This week they installed floor-moulding, windowsills, door trim, primed all that wood and PAINTED everything inside...Well, we didn't see the ceilings painted yet, but I'm guessing they put on second coats of things today and maybe did the ceilings...or that'll be next week. We'll see tomorrow when we go visit.
Here are some pictures from the week, relatively in order of time when happened.
Just the workers painting the exterior.
First they delivered the moulding and placed it around the house where needed...and it's needed in areas with carpeting...hardwood is installed and the moulding goes on top of that. Carpeting is streched under/by the moulding.
Then they start hanging it everywhere, like around the front door.
And here's the windowsills and floor moulding.
And the upstairs is all set, too!
After all the moulding is in, they spray a coat of primer over just about everything, it seemed, the moulding and the textured drywall, as can be seen on our master bedroom fireplace mantel.
As alluded to above, our ceilings will be a different color than the walls. They will match the moulding, actually. That is a Personal Modification Request (PMR, to those in the know). They normally, as a standard, paint all one color for walls and ceilings, but to pay for the additional paint color, and moreso for the masking of the walls while they paint the ceilings, they charge more...so, at the start they just overspray on the ceilings.
So, besides missing the flooring, this is what the inside of the house looks like. Again, the color isn't perfect, especially since everyone's lighting by their PC monitors is different and the difference in monitor's colors, etc...but this time I tried a bit to get the color right...The walls are called Whole Wheat and the moulding is painted Antique White.
Last pic for the week, here is that neighbor's door...this will be the color of our door. We liked the models darkish red, but this rich/vibrant orangey color (Sherwin Williams, Spicy Hue) will be pretty cool!
One last thing to mention, then I'm done. On Saturday we had our LAST appointment with The Style House to choose window coverings. Yeah, we went mostly with faux wood blinds and letting them do it for a few reasons, mostly to have all living spaces READY for the move in date! We don't want to be working on the house, except unpacking, those first few weeks, so we just want to be comfortable!
So, that's our last meeting to discuss options, so we got a stamp stating, "Final Puchase Pring" on the last signed contract...so we finally know our new home's final price! YAY!!! We're only 1200 over the budget we allowed ourselves, so that's not too bad, especially when we hear stories of people going 20-30k over budget!
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