It's Not Easy Being Green

Say goodbye to the green max wrap it's disappearing behind our siding.  It is tough trying to decide on a color.  You get a small fan deck of colors and try and imagine what it will look like on a very large scale.  When I narrowed it down to my top choice I requested a larger sample.  Thankfully they gave me two large siding pieces which helped the decision making processes. 

Lee and Jerry working hard.  They never smile for the camera!

  

The room you are looking at is the upstairs laundry room.  We decided to locate the laundry on the second floor, this doorway leads to our attic space.  I'm very excited about this, in our previous house I couldn't access the attic and whenever I needed something Pete would have to get it for me.  

This past weekend Pete worked in the attic space.  He put up plywood walls and made a loft area for extra storage.  

 Here's Max and Tori in the loft space 

Here's another shot for the doorway.  

While Pete was busy working on the attic space I decided to locate some of my winter clothes.  Stacked in the corner of the basement of our rental house are a bunch of totes.  Of course on the bottom of the stack were my sweaters, as I made my way to the bottom, one tote was particularly heavy and not labeled.    Wouldn't ya know it, I found Pete's jeans and shorts that have been missing since July.  Notice no label on the tote, now the question is...do I tell him?  

The drywall is finished.  

We hired Harold and Ron Stowell to be our drywall contractors.  Wow, did these guys do an amazing job. At first they were a little hard to read,  they didn't talk much and were all business.  Well, over the last week I got to know them better and really enjoyed their humor and they are down right talented.  They even took extra time and skim coated our ceiling on the main level because they were worried about the snow reflecting on the ceiling with all the windows.  

 On Wednesday I took the kids to Wenke Tile and Carpet to finalize a few things.  The kids were great for the first 1.5 hours, but their fun meter was running pretty low when I took this picture.  

This is the kids vanity and two tile choices.

 Lee and Jerry cutting the big white triangle at the top peak.  

See the white piece way up there?

 All the trim was delivered on Wednesday too.  Pete will start trimming the windows soon.

And doors

On Wednesday Joe the stone mason stopped by to do a skim coat, to prepare for the stone.  Max thought this was pretty cool and asked if he could place the first stones.  Joe said, "Sure" so Max placed these on the skim coat.  

 Looks great Max!

We hired Chris Batts and his team to paint the house.  Initially, Pete and I planned on painting the entire house, but we've had a change of heart (aka we are tired).  Pete will still trim all the doors and windows and install all the cabinetry, but we are going to hand our paint rollers over to the professionals.  So, on Friday and Saturday they primed the entire house and painted the ceilings.  Pete and I couldn't believe it...that would have taken us weeks.   

I spent all of Black Friday picking stones from two different color batches I ordered from RBK.   Joe even gave me my own gloves to help protect my fingers.  

This was the very last stone.  

I love it!  I'm now thinking about a career change,  I'm not sure my back is up for it!  Tomorrow the columns will be finished and the cap across the garage will be installed.  Of course they still need to grout it too!