Remodeling - Day Eighteen

Today Harry and I got a late start. By 11 am we were done packing up my truck and headed out to our house. While we were on the road our contractor called and asked us to pick up another box of tiles at Lowe’s. So we stopped by Lowe’s and picked up the tiles, then picked up some lunch and headed to our house. By the time we were done with lunch and unpacked the truck it was about 12:30 or so. Our contractor had started framing up the fireplace and we will have to pick out a stain for the wood that goes best together with the hardwood floors. Guess we’ll be stopping by Home Depot this evening again. Our contractor Danny still has some tile work in the Master Bathroom to do but the fireplace needs only grout. Danny picked out the grout for the fireplace, but he asked that Harry and I to pick out the grout for the master bathroom.

The first room Harry and I ended up painting today was the Office. While I taped off the trim Harry was busy painting the walls. We made pretty good progress and were finished with the first coat of paint in the office way earlier than we expected.

After the office we started with the Master Bedroom. Again I started taping off the trim, while Harry started painting the walls. Apparently our master bedroom is larger than the office as it took us a lot longer to finish the first coat of paint. We were done with the master bedroom by 6.30 pm.

After a short break we went back to the office to start with the second coat of paint. The only problem with that was that we were slowly running out of daylight and we had no light in the office. So we took our contractors construction light and started painting the office. Shortly after we had started the second coat in the office we were sweating like we were out in the direct sunlight, as that construction light gives off a ton of heat. But we knew we had to finish the second coat of paint regardless. So this time I painted the majority of the walls while Harry painted the trim.

While painting the office I got a call from Living Spaces informing us that they will be delivering the furniture that we purchased two weeks ago tomorrow between the hours of 9:30am and 11:30am. That put a wrench in our tomorrow plans. Danny asked up to pick up a few finishing things for the house and we had planned to pick them up in the morning before heading up to the house.. but when I say morning I mean around 10am. But now we had to be at the house by 9:30am which meant we would have to leave our rental by 8:30 and be up even earlier.

So we got home from a long day of painting, dropped off the dog and then turned around and went to home depot to pick up some supplies.

We finally go home around 10pm and were exhausted. And tomorrow we will be getting up early to get to the house before the delivery truck.. with our luck the truck with show up right at 9:30am.

The adventure continues....