Month: February 2010

Last night after work, Ryan had a ZBA meeting but I made a quick dinner and got right to painting. It took an hour to do the cutting in, and then another hour to roll the walls. The paint is SO smooth! And I love the color! Ryan came home and was worried it was too dark but I think in the lighter part of the day it wasn’t as dark. Plus this is our entertainment/tv room so I wanted it to be a darker room. With white trim it will look lighter as well.

One more coat to go on both the ceiling and walls!

Monday after work (and after dinner), Ryan and I got the paint out! I cut in around the ceiling and Ryan rolled the ceiling. The color is a little more yellow than we thought but we think it will look really good with the green/grey wall color and the white trim color.

I’m hoping to paint the walls tonight. Then we’ll have a real updated picture. The picture below you can’t really see the ceiling color because it’s close to the primer color.

Friday we sanded the ceiling of the tvroom and then I vacuumed it up real good.

Sunday evening we primed the whole room (Ryan did the ceiling and I did the walls).

Ryan also got the last bathroom wall insulated (the wall with the doorway) so we can drywall in there. We’re hoping to start painting during the evenings this week and I might hook up the bathroom electric so we can test it out before we put up the drywall.

Ryan finished spackling the ceiling in the tvroom last night! It’s all ready to be sanded (maybe tonight or sunday) and then the whole room can be primed! We’re going to go buy paint tonight – we’re thinking green maybe for this room 🙂

The renovation pages on the right are finally getting updated – so far the tvroom page has been updated with a journal of just the tv room progress made so far.

Next up will be the bathroom.

Also the tile has arrived!  Ryan picked it up after work this week.  Now we just need to get the bathroom ready for tile so Ryan’s dad can come out and help us tile it up!

We had a nice long weekend (well Ryan had to work Sunday and Monday but I had a long weekend!).

By Sunday Morning Ryan had the bathroom cement board just about finished (the window pieces still need to be put in but the walls are ready for just drywall now. Here’s the progress:

Sunday I spackled the final corner coats on the walls and ceiling corners. Then Monday I spent the day sanding the walls. That was a LOT of work and I may have sanded a bit too much but they’re nice and smooth. The ceiling is still lagging behind (needs one coat of spackle on the seams still).

Then Monday night I chose one wall to prime so I could see how the sanding came out. I was concerned that the sanding screens I used were leaving fine lines (directional) from sanding and I wasn’t sure if the primer would cover it or not – luckily it does and the wall came out great! Here is the primed wall:

Tuesday and Wednesday I was SO sore from sanding that no progress has been made since (plus I’m working long hours so I’m not home much) but hopefully this coming weekend we can get the ceiling done so the whole room can be primed.

Progress continues, slowly but surely.

Saturday while I was out, Ryan worked on the bathroom. He got the second wall insulated and most of the cement board up. He’s got 1 more large piece of cement board and some small pieces. Then it’s just the green board to finish. I think that’s a goal for this coming 3 day weekend!

Sunday we figured out the amounts and ordered the tile for the bathroom. We’re using marble tiles:
6×6 on the floor
3×6 up the walls (4 ft high) with a decorative tile design across the top
3×6 up the shower walls to the ceiling (matches the floor)
During the super bowl I spackled the corners in the tvroom. Getting step 1 done on 3 of the 5 inside corners and one side of the outside corner. This is the final coat hopefully!