The Beginning of the Long Haul

Over the last couple weeks, we've been painting the interior walls like mad and working on the siding. The electrical was installed so now there's ample lights to work at night as well as during the day.

The work that happens after the foundation, framing and drywall, seems to go a lot slower than the first phase. Since my overall project funds are now pretty low, I will be doing more of the work myself. We're gunning for a September 1st move-in date.


This video is a status update of where things are in the project.

Adding Some Color To Our Lives

I thought that I was going to have the house painted by others, but I ended up painting it myself over the weekend. It's taken me about 20 hours so far--I probably have about 4 hours to go still. I've been listening to lots of podcasts and painting late into the evening.

I needed to do the painting before proceeding to the installation of the wood flooring, or staining the concrete, in order to prevent possible paint spill mishaps on finished floors.

The first step after completing the drywall was to prime the walls. After priming, I had pros paint the 20ft high ceilings white with a paint gun.


Once that layer had time to dry, we selected colors for the walls. We made the colors ourselves using whites with an eggshell glean as the base, and adding purples and reds and greens. When I had to buy more white paint, I purchased "mistints" at the paint store (paints that were returned for some reason) which was a less expensive way to buy paint since I wasn't picky about the white base color.

We eventually created a nice palette of colors to use. We chose a purple, green, and a salmon color for most of the surfaces. I am a little bit color blind, so I left the color selection mostly to my girlfriend.



I spent the whole weekend painting and have almost finished. It looks great.