Sore muscles...

Worked most of the day sanding drywall in the kitchen. Boy am I sore tonight!!!

Now... got my feet up on a pillow while I look at color scheme books!

I've got all stainless appliances and black soapstone for counters/island... so I'm going to go with warm, rich, earthy colors.

Can't wait till I can put paint on the walls!

Cabinets... mid-May....

Kitchen cabinets to be installed

Heard from our cabinet maker... our cabinets are just about ready!

I picked the install date of 5/13... mid-May!

As soon as I'm done preparing Taxes... I'll be finishing the walls/ceiling in the kitchen!

Rich is working on the Master bathroom... doing plumbing and creating a platform for the antique bathtub.

Wow... time flies!

I can't believe that it's been almost a month since my last post!!!!

We've been putting up sheetrock and mudding...

Rich has switched gears a bit and put on his "plumbing" hat for the master bathroom. He's in the midst of running water & sewer lines for that area.

The main sewer line for the master bathroom (on the 2nd floor) will run down the north wall corner of the living room. So, once that's done... we'll be able to sheetrock the Living Room!

The water lines will be coming up thru that same section and running into the ceiling of the Family room... once that's done... we'll be able to sheetrock the Family Room!

I'm happy to report... honestly... that mudding is going easier for me and I can now envision myself finishing the house!

I promise to take pictures today... and some video!!! Will update this post later tonight.

The Office... progress

Rich and Matthew continue to work in the Office by night... hanging sheetrock.

The Ceiling is up and the Walls are started. Two walls are up!

I spent the afternoon working on preparing the kitchen for primer. My work goes like this... mud... sand... mud... sand... mud... sand... Off I go!

The Office...

Sheetrocking continues....

Big changes! What a difference it makes to have the sheetrock up! I can't believe how much brighter it is in the back hall.

The Office

Worked on the Office yesterday. Ceiling is all sheetrocked. Began the west wall but didn't get much farther than that.

While Rich & Matt installed sheetrock, I worked on taping the back hall.

Back Hall progress....

I ended needing to devote quite a bit of time to my business this week... so didn't get the kitchen painted... sigh...

The house is feeling better and better! It was so awesome to come downstairs this morning into the back hall... with walls and a ceiling!!!! Very strange that the ceilings actually feel taller now with ceiling board on them.

Back Hall

So the back hall and ceiling have sheetrock!

Office

Today the goal is to put up ceiling board and get as far as possible on the walls!

Taping

I taped the back hall and closet yesterday... oh my gosh the closet... it's going to be a challenge finishing walls in there... I did not like it.... very claustrophobic!

Pantry-finished wallboarding and...

Friday was a productive day. We feel as though we made some good progress! Here's a little summary. Sorry no pics or video. I'm borrowing Rich's computer because my Macbook is down... sigh...

Pantry

We finished putting up the wallboard in the Pantry. It's all taped and ready for mudding.

Kitchen

I continued to work on mudding. Mostly yesterday I sanded the ceiling. It's official... my skin does NOT like sheetrock dust. I've got the red bumps today to prove it. Will have to protect my skin... maybe buy a special suit.

Breakfast Nook

Almost done... a few more sheets of sheetrock to go... of course... in the most difficult of places... the cathedral ceiling!

mud... mud... mud...

I'll be mudding the kitchen over the next several days!

Graying all over!

I've just finished work for the day in the kitchen. Made some awesome progress...mudding & sanding!

Oh my gosh, you should see me! My hair is no longer golden light brown... but is GRAY! I'm covered in drywall dust!

I feel really good about how work went today. Guess that I'm getting into the groove with my "Mud Artiste" hat on!

But seriously... tomorrow I will dawn a bandana on my head!

A Video of How To Apply Mud to Finish your Sheetrock Walls

This is what I'm up to NOW!

Here's a video of how to get your walls ready for primer! Mud... Mud.. Mud..

Video: Tape & Mud Walls

Our Kitchen has walls!

We've been working hard... I mean... with great determination!

KITCHEN

Rich and our oldest son Matthew finished putting up the wallboard in the kitchen on Saturday night. YEAH!!!!

BREAKFAST NOOK

However... the adjoining breakfast nook is still without walls/ceiling board. It's going to be a little tricky to finish because of the cathedral ceiling. We hope to get that done tonight!!!

MUD

Today, I will continue mudding & sanding the ceiling & walls in the kitchen. Can't wait to get to the priming stage!!!!

And...

I made a video to share with you so that you could see our progress... but alas... my macbook didn't like that last software update... and is... well... incapacitated right now... sadly... Can't post any more pics/video until I figure out how to fix it! Sorry!

More sheetrocking going up in the kitchen

SHEETROCK WALLS - KITCHEN

Well the kitchen is really taking shape!

Rich and his unwilling teenage helper (our older, almost 16 year old son) are putting up the walls today!

It's looking pretty good!

WARNING: MUD ARTISTE at work!

I'm doing a 2nd coat of mud in the dining room.... mudding... sanding... I AM a self-proclaimed MUD ARTISTE!!! I AM!!!!

Celebrating each step....

Goal... be ready for kitchen cabinets by the end of January!!!

So to that end...

-I finished the first coat of mud on the Kitchen Ceiling!

-Rich added bracing to the studs to support the stainless steel vent hood.

-And... another the top piece of the west wall went up!

Progress!!!!

Kitchen Ceiling.. Mud begins

Today I taped all the joints in the Kitchen Ceiling and began filling screw holes and seams with mud!

Tomorrow all seams will have their first coat of mud!

Rich is planning on starting the walls tomorrow.

Kitchen Progress!

KITCHEN...

Rich ran the wiring for the Vent Hood this morning... then the rest of the day was dedicated to putting up ceiling board in the kitchen.

I am very... extremely... happy to report that: We have a ceiling in the kitchen!!!!

MUD...

While the guys worked in the kitchen... I did some mud work in the dining room. It actually went really good today! Having the mud the consistency of sour cream really makes a huge difference in how smooth you can apply it!

I'm finally starting to feel more comfortable with it!!! Which is a good thing... because I have LOTS & LOTS of mud work yet to do!

Color Scheme...

I seriously have to decide on a color scheme!!!!

The ceiling is going up in the kitchen NOW!

-The stove vent has been wired....

-The cabinets are being built...

Colors???? I love warm earthy colors.

Taping & Mudding... Mudding & Taping...

I worked in the boys' bathroom today putting on another coat of mud.

On Saturday I finished taping the front hall & tonight I began taping the kitchen.

I'm afraid that is going to be my life for a while yet....

I'm done for the day now.

Video Kitchen Update 1/9/10

Video update of work in the kitchen... sheetrock!

The beginning of a Kitchen Ceiling with photos 1/8/10

The beginning of a ceiling in the kitchen. Photos taken 1/8/10.

Ceiling sheetrock in kitchen

The sheetrock for the kitchen ceiling has started to go up!