Well I finally picked out the granite for the bathrooms. The pictures aren't very good but you'll just have to come and see them in person. This one is for the master bath. It is a beautiful shade of green with white and some turquoise quartz running through it. It wasn't what I was originally looking for but when I saw how beautiful it was I changed my thinking.
This amazing piece is for the hall bath. I looks like marble but it is really granite. This is like a piece of artwork to me I love it so much. Now I just have to pick out a good sink to put in it. I am really excited about this.
The sheet rock is finished. What an amazing difference it makes. I thought it would make the house look small inside but it didn't. Having the wall board up gives the illusion of great progress.
Once the wall board was up it was time to work on white washing the pine boards for the ceiling. There were 50 10 footers and 32 16 footers to do this to. I started last Monday on the 10 footers. It is quite a labor intensive job. The actual painting of them pales in comparison to having to move the boards a million times. I was worn out after Monday. Glad I had to work on Tues and Wed for a rest.
I had to shoot them out the window, set them on the horses apply the oil based paint then wipe it off rather quickly, then move them to a spot to dry for awhile, then shoot them back in the window to finish drying in the house. I had to move my work spot too as it got too sunny and the paint was drying too fast. Yesh! I did 19 of the 16 footers on Friday night then finished the last 13 of them on Saturday afternoon. They look awesome and I know I will be happy I did it once we get them on the ceiling. We hope to start that this week.
Meanwhile back at the ranch Bill started painting the interior. We figured it would be really quick to paint now before the ceiling and trim was up. No cutting in saves a ton of time. We picked out all the colors we needed, got all the paint. (Very over budget on the paint), and Bill got on a roll (pun intended). He got the whole living rm/dining rm and kitchen done. Nearly all the back hallway and the pantry, and even got the ceilings painted in the two spare rooms, back hall and pantry. We made a lot of progress this past week. We definitely needed our Sunday nap today.
You can't really tell the color here but it is beautiful to us! It is just looking so good. You can see some of my ceiling boards on the floor.
The week the girls were here Bill rented a little bulldozer. When I say little, I mean little. It looked like a tonka toy. He was in his glory clearing out the upper 40. He got a bad case of poison ivy too. A couple shots in the arse cured him though. I think I will use that technique the next time he irritates me :)
You should see the pile of rocks now. It is about 6 feet high and 10 feet wide. There was a ton of metal that a former owner had piled up to make a wall in the back. The good news it that Bill took it to the scrap place and got $144 bucks for it all. Helped pay for the tonka toy.
We dragged everyone over to see Grandpa play on his toy. Didn't stay long though, the mesquitos were feasting on us.
Well I finally picked out the granite for the bathrooms. The pictures aren't very good but you'll just have to come and see them in person. This one is for the master bath. It is a beautiful shade of green with white and some turquoise quartz running through it. It wasn't what I was originally looking for but when I saw how beautiful it was I changed my thinking.
This amazing piece is for the hall bath. I looks like marble but it is really granite. This is like a piece of artwork to me I love it so much. Now I just have to pick out a good sink to put in it. I am really excited about this. 
The sheet rock is finished. What an amazing difference it makes. I thought it would make the house look small inside but it didn't. Having the wall board up gives the illusion of great progress.
Once the wall board was up it was time to work on white washing the pine boards for the ceiling. There were 50 10 footers and 32 16 footers to do this to. I started last Monday on the 10 footers. It is quite a labor intensive job. The actual painting of them pales in comparison to having to move the boards a million times. I was worn out after Monday. Glad I had to work on Tues and Wed for a rest.
I had to shoot them out the window, set them on the horses apply the oil based paint then wipe it off rather quickly, then move them to a spot to dry for awhile, then shoot them back in the window to finish drying in the house. I had to move my work spot too as it got too sunny and the paint was drying too fast. Yesh! I did 19 of the 16 footers on Friday night then finished the last 13 of them on Saturday afternoon. They look awesome and I know I will be happy I did it once we get them on the ceiling. We hope to start that this week.
Meanwhile back at the ranch Bill started painting the interior. We figured it would be really quick to paint now before the ceiling and trim was up. No cutting in saves a ton of time. We picked out all the colors we needed, got all the paint. (Very over budget on the paint), and Bill got on a roll (pun intended). He got the whole living rm/dining rm and kitchen done. Nearly all the back hallway and the pantry, and even got the ceilings painted in the two spare rooms, back hall and pantry. We made a lot of progress this past week. We definitely needed our Sunday nap today.
You can't really tell the color here but it is beautiful to us! It is just looking so good. You can see some of my ceiling boards on the floor.
The week the girls were here Bill rented a little bulldozer. When I say little, I mean little. It looked like a tonka toy. He was in his glory clearing out the upper 40. He got a bad case of poison ivy too. A couple shots in the arse cured him though. I think I will use that technique the next time he irritates me :)
You should see the pile of rocks now. It is about 6 feet high and 10 feet wide. There was a ton of metal that a former owner had piled up to make a wall in the back. The good news it that Bill took it to the scrap place and got $144 bucks for it all. Helped pay for the tonka toy.
We dragged everyone over to see Grandpa play on his toy. Didn't stay long though, the mesquitos were feasting on us.
Looks great Mom! Can't wait to see it in person!!! Good job on all of your work!!
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