Adam, our builder, has said recently that their finishing trailer will be arriving soon. Say it isn’t so! In my mind, this can only mean that we are in the home stretch. My own mental milestones are coming…prime painting is happening this week along with ceiling colour (Beautitone “Earthling” and “Feather Stone” for the walls…for the curious), flooring is next week, cabinets the week after…not sure where we landed with trim and interior doors but they have been ordered. It will soon start to look like a dirty house and I am envisioning how it will be to live there…mostly evenings by the fire and walks to the river. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
The last couple of weeks saw the S2 crew finish the wood ceiling in the living room/kitchen peak, The water system pump installed and powered, the drywall crew sweep in and hang an incredible amount of drywall in what feels like a very short period of time, and almost finish the sanding. The S2 crew has continued to work on the exterior porch soffit, and also started the siding work. We have toiled away at painting said siding, doing our level best to get ahead of the expected demand once they really get going. Our paint crew may be reluctant, but paid minimum wage for their time…don’t feel too sorry for them!
Jeff has said more than once, how glad he is that he is not trying to hang the drywall or mud or sand, AND how impressed he is with the work that’s been done. It’s tight and they are quick. With the exception of one wobbly looking piece in the living room that I’m not sure we can do much about and we probably won’t notice once the house is finished.
The wood ceiling in both the peak space and the porch is better that we could have imagined and Josh, the finish carpenter who has been working on both spaces has done a fantastic job. The interior and exterior wood and stain is the same and runs in the same direction inside and out. It really looks amazing. We have run out of finished T&G, so another load has been ordered and my work will begin again soon so we can finish the porch ceiling.
With Jeff and the girls away at the coast this week, I’ll be left to meet with the septic system contractor and make that trip to Lethbridge to look at the second supplier for countertops. Time is getting short there and I need to make some last decisions on the counters for the kitchen, bathrooms and laundry room, and either bite the bullet and pay import duties, or find something else that I like for hardware on the cabinets. Given that the budget is tight, I might have to find something that can be sourced more locally, but so far, I have come up with jack squat for comparables. More doom scrolling ahead…maybe the local iron works guy who’s coming to look at the stair railing can fabricate something. Oh yeah, that’s on deck too. Busy busy.