It's been a while

Hello loyal blog followers... we owe you an apology. It's been a while since we've posted anything about the house. We're sorry. It's just been so crazy busy!

Not exactly sure where we left off? Probably with the wiring of the house... Believe it or not we're still in the process of finishing up the electrical wiring. The hard part is done - the walls were busted up, the wires were run, the inspector gave us his green sticker of approval. Now we're waiting on getting outlets, switches, plates and light fixtures installed. That was supposed to happen today, but the electrician went AWOL. This is not uncommon behavior.

The cable and internet wiring of the house is complete. We did run into one snafu -- the cable/internet wiring for one room was cut too short to make it to the basement media panel. After much internet research, Chris found some crazy dohickey that could splice the short piece and a longer extension piece of cable together and fix the problem. Huzzah! Good work. Internet and cable for all!

Once the wiring was complete, the crew got to work on repairing the plaster walls. Three guys spent an entire work week patching and then skim coating all the plaster walls. They look amazing... they did a great job.

On the wall we share with the neighbor, we installed sound proofing drywall. Stupid expensive (normal drywall $14 a sheet, sound proofing drywall $42 a sheet) but hopefully worth it. Good fences make for good neighbors, right?

We also framed out, insulated and drywalled the entire basement. Between the bigger windows, and finished drywall, the basement is really becoming a lovely living space. This room will serve as the home theater, home arcade (ask Chris about the arcade!) , and laundry area. One day it will have full bath (all the plumbing's been roughed in) and maybe a small workout area for yours truly. A girl can dream :-)

After drywalling and plastering the crew split into two. One half primed and painted. Chris and I picked some beautiful colors... and one color that looks a little like french dressing. That one might be a mistake. But regardless, the painted walls make the house is really look like a home. And lest I forget the floor, door and window trim - again a finishing touch that really makes a huge difference. I can actually start to visualize our furniture in the rooms, dinner parties we might have... you get the idea.

The trim is a lovely white (you have no idea how many shades of white there are!) that looks fresh and clean. We painted the bedrooms mostly blue (the one color Chris and I could agree on), the living room is a lovely warm tan, and the kitchen/dining room is french dressing. Actually, I think it's called earthy henna, but maybe it's a bit too orange.

The other half of the crew tackled the kitchen and bathroom tile. I am SO excited about these floors and walls. In the kitchen, we did a light tan travertine tile, with small squares of slate inset. It is absolutely gorgeous! And in the bathroom we did a multi-colored marble tile basketweave floor, and a cream colored subway tile around the bathtub. It's beautiful. I have to admit that the bathroom turned out a bit different than I thought - I was going for more grey and white as opposed to multi-colored marble. But it is lovely the way it is... next bathroom I'll do grey and white!

So that's basically where we're at... getting to the finish line. This upcoming week is going to be a big one. We'll start refinishing the wood floors on Monday - which means no one can be inside the house. So instead, the crew will be pouring the concrete for our patio and laying the gravel for the parking pad. (see Chris' post about the stump that ate the parking pad) We're also hoping to tackle the roof on Friday. Weather g-ds, please send us good weather on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (yes, it's a three day job).

That's all the news from this half of the Cuttler/Aument duo... 'till next time....