We're Off!

Well, I didn't get any additional photos taken! My bad. Not a lot to show for the weekend and last few days. Cyd did get a chance to crawl thru the eves and help SWL install the last vent so that the new attic fan can work as efficiently as possible. We've primed the Master Bath, and cleaned up little details following the drywallers around after sanding. I think we're leaving a long list of ready places to paint. Cyd has corner cupboard shelves here to paint for the Diningroom. Randy is almost finished tiling upstairs.... so it's ready to paint. He'll be in to grout and seal. We challenged his sensibilities with the retro "dark" color grout.... not even a cool photo has him fully sold. What does he know! Painting can begin in Cyd's closet and the Master Bedroom. The upstairs guest BR is ready when Randy gets his stuff out! With a bit of cleaning prep all around.... the downstairs could be started as well (if you want to work around boxes and stuff). We're ordering appliances this morning - which take a couple of weeks... perfect timing. Bennett will be home over the weekend.... so they'll have some time to work together! We're excited for this trip, and a little house break. No doubt we'll return re-energized and anxious to finish it up and get the Schaumburgs moved in!! So, unless Cyd will document herself and continue my blogging.... we'll be off line until the end of the month. Best! ARL

Weeks End

While the day to day details are hard to document, we are making strides. Days go sort of like this: finish 2nd coat paint on Callie's room trim, rasor blade off glass, have Nanny wash windows, SWL get's to the details and cleans sliding groves.... we need to repaint! Little details that don't show much. Bennett's study is all but complete - thanks to master painter SWL who re-rolled the ceiling and re-cut the grey. Then the drywall team patched the closet.... now
we need to prime and repaint the patch! The bigger progress - Randy continues on the Master Bath,
Drywall up and taped in Cyd's closet, her closet door is complete.... until drywall is sanded and we can clean up and begin painting upstairs. Baker Roofing arrived this afternoon to install the attic fan and roof vent for the upstairs bath fan - should cool off the upstairs a bit more. We've got parts and pieces to begin wiring the Diningroom fixture, some spray painting projects to begin. We dropped off the headboard to be reupholstered AND the DR host and hostess chairs arrived. So, lots going on! Have a good weekend everyone, and I'll try to get a last blog update before we head across the pond!!

Now We're Talking!

Tuesday - painting is reminding me a little bit of wiring. Will it ever end?! We are pathetically slow - and not very good. We coat, we wait, we recoat, we wait, we cut back in to cover our mess, we wait. We're still on the second room of the house!! I'm feeling really good about the fact that upstairs there are no ceilings to cut in, or crown!.... more rolling, which SWL handles very nicely with his power painting stick! So we did get a look at the gorgeous doors on Callie's closet. An inspired idea we all admit. We're mourning the fact that the fabric we were SO excited to use is discontinued... we'll move on when we get over it. Randy is plugging away at the master bath. I think he'll be finished this week - we're hoping. And Michael came - let there be a kitchen floor!!!! So little by little it really is taking shape. Our team will be growing sooner than later - Bennett accepted the job offer at GSW and will be home in two weeks!
CONGRATULATIONS!! We are now officially in our one week countdown to our big trip. Our wish is to get the kitchen installed this week - so counters can be measured (and made?) while we're away. We can at least wish!!

Update

My bad. Wanted to share todays start and finish. BIG storm moved thru parts of Arlington last night. We arrived at barrington this morning to find the post down!!! That settles that question I guess! Shot of Dootie and her mother at the end of the day. xoxox

Weekend Highlights

Well, the weekend flew by. I'll try to recap. Saturday was day 2 (or was it 3?) of Bennett's Study painting. We are all but finished.... our poor cutting skills have us in a pickle with ceiling touch up. We don't have any, nor do we know what the ceiling paint is! SO- TBD. Cheryl and John Rome arrived in their painting clothes Saturday morning - and painted Callie's room! Sorry I didn't capture them at work. SWL was hard at work finishing up the door to Cyd's closet... many challenging details there - but also much progress. As I write Sunday evening, he has just one piece of shaped framing to put into place. We are ready for Patrick's team to put up the drywall. Randy was onsite Saturday to put in the Master Bath floor - we hoped he'd come today to start walls - but no. Sunday - the Rome painting team returned to paint the kitchen. They did a perfect job... and the decorator :( picked the wrong paint color!!! One step forward, and one step back! Cyd was off for the afternoon ( baby shower ) so we scurried to repaint the kitchen -
to be ready for floor installation - hopefully tomorrow!! We installed the kitchen light bar first thing today.... we need to bring a fixture over to check our clearance. I just realized too that I didn't get a shot of Callie's closet doors.... that was SWL's last task of the day... I'll reveal tomorrow. The desk Cyd created with an old Armoire back she found in the garage, and married to an industrial base she found at salvage is in place for effect in the study. We like!!
Hope everyone had a good weekend - have a good week too!

Where did the Week go?!

How can it possibly be Friday already? Progress on Barrington, but still slow going. I think Cyd is beginning to see how many steps it takes to accomplish each task.... sounds so simple to get a room painted... but the prep and coats!! Big stuff today; we got a good foam insulation bid for Cyd's closet... and later in the afternoon they came and did it! DONE. Randy was on site- that's something - and installed the shower floor tile and prepared the whole floor. He also said he'd see us tomorrow! I think that means he'll do the rest of the floor tomorrow, then it will need to dry before he can begin tile on the walls.... Monday? We're crossing our fingers SWL will have his leader come to start the Kitchen floors tomorrow. We'll see; but it would be awesome to have that finished so the cabinets could begin! Cyd and I completed the first coat on Bennett's study - and ran out of steam before we started round 2... beyond the bookcase - tomorrow! It is great to look down the hallway and see color and personality. I've begun to panic a bit.... we only have another full week before our trip - and I can't even list what I hope to have done by then! One day at a time.

It's JUNE!!

Well Memorial Weekend flew - like all fun times with our family gathered together. It was a really wonderful holiday with all the kids in Ohio. By Tuesday p.m. all had flown away - back to their lives... except Bennett - leaving Cyd here to join the house team. Today was a bit fractured due to a mid-day appointment with the framer. SWL hit the house hard all day - almost completing Cyd's closet... he finished framing, setting a doorway, blocking, and setting the wires I'd hung so long ago! I believe all he has left is detail on the entry door. Next up - foam insulation, then drywall. Cyd and I started with a few errands for hardware and dropping a car back to Hunts.
Next up was spraying the old iron bed.... for it's 3rd life. Our timing was perfect as Chris and David - our house painters - were breaking for an early lunch... and they had to show us how it was done.... by pretty much doing it!! It looks wonderful, and we can't wait to see it set up. We made it to Barrington in time to give the kitchen ceiling a couple coats of paint - looks like it needs a 3rd - and it was dog time already. Tomorrow - we're tackling Bennett's study - finally! We miss you all. Thank you again for traveling to share your weekend! xoxo