It's Definitely Brown! - Thursday, October 25, 2007

The rest of the house was painted on Thursday, with the exception of the red wall in the living room. The dining room looks so good! Even Ryan, who had his reservations about such a dark colour in the dining room (he thought that it would make the wood around the windows disappear and make the room smaller), liked it. It actually makes the wood pop and stand out more. It might make it look a bit smaller, but that could be because it's still full of all of our supplies and tools for installing the hardwood. All I know is that I like it! The pictures make it look a bit darker than it is in person.

Robyn came out to the house to give us a hand. Mom and Dad were also there helping us. We got the diningroom finished and got a few boards in the entryway done too. We're hoping to have it all done by Saturday. We might take Friday night off and just relax...the only thing we will do is water test the shower before Kris installs the tiles. Kris will be installing the flooring in the kitchen on Monday, and hopefully he'll be installing the tiles in the bathroom sometime next week as well. These are some before shots of the kitchen floor, after Mom and I cleaned it all up.

Hopefully on Friday Norm the Painter will have the wall in the living room done, and have all of his stuff out of there. It will give us a little bit more room to work. I also hope that he leaves us some touch-up paint in case we knick the walls when we're doing the rest of the floors. I can't wait to get to the house Friday night and see the red wall, and finally be able to move stuff out of the dining room and see what it looks like when it's empty.

We were trying to figure out how much work was left for them to do before we can move in, and we're thinking that we might be in there in about 2 - 3 weeks; 3 weeks would take us to the weekend of November 17th. I really hope that we're in by then, so that I can still have the Epicure party that I've planned for November 24th, assuming that we'd long be in the house by now. We'll see...

My Grandma is coming in Friday night on the bus...maybe we'll put her to work at the house too...we'll get her to nail in a couple of the boards...We might be having "Christmas Dinner" with her while she's here, since at Christmas time she is going to Cuba with my Aunt and Uncle and Cousins.