Trim & Paint

Our house has trim and interior doors now. The paint isn't done but it's been started.

The basement ceilings are done and the basement also has some trim and doors.

We met with Peter (from the trim place) and made a plan for the built-in shelves surrounding the fireplace and the bench / hooks in the mudroom.

I don't have any pictures to share because our house is now locked up on a daily basis after regular work hours, and we have been so busy with our own schedules that we haven't had lots of chances to go over during the day.

So we just go in the evening and peek in the windows to see what's new.

We have a family of killdeer living in the backyard on the new lot. They have three little babies that aren't flying yet and every time we go back there the parents go crazy trying to distract us from their young. It is fascinating to watch.

Lighting

Joanne and I picked out lighting fixtures today at The Lighting Shoppe.

I thought we had mostly potlights throughout the house, but there were still lots of fixtures to select.

There is so much variety, in terms of styles and looks. As with every selection process so far, I come home excited about what we picked, but a little nervous in hoping that it will look good with everything else.

Ceilings

The main floor and second floor ceilings were done the first week of May, and the house is now filled with trim and doors.

Basement Drywall

Picking out Paint

Joanne met me at Sacwal to pick out paint today. I was a little wary of how long it might take to pick out paint for the entire house in one meeting. It took me about three weeks to pick out a colour for our current entry way & family room.

As usual, Joanne was amazing and had some great insight and suggestions. I think the colours we chose are going to look beautiful, and we were done the entire house in under 2 hours.

I'm pretty conservative when it comes to paint colours but we did branch out of the neutral palette for a couple of rooms.

I feel like everything is really starting to come together and I am getting really excited! The fireplace in the great room was installed today too and it looks awesome.