Home Building Diary

More trim, more paint, more photos!

November 3rd, 2006

A photo tour and progress update on my new small house:

We’ll begin in the livingroom downstairs. The photo (click to enlarge) shows the south wall with paneling and trim in place. The windows still need to be primed and painted, and the wall needs finish paint. To the right you can see my louvered front door, which as been cut to fit but not painted or installed. The wall behind it has its first coat of green paint.

Another view of the green paint downstairs; looking toward the kitchen. The kitchen walls have been primed but not painted. They’ll be white. All the downstairs ceilings have been painted white.

This is a sample of the cork flooring I’m going to install. The patterned color looks good with the white trim and pale green wall.

A view straight up the stairwell. Yes, that’s more green paint!

The upstairs paneled wall. One more coat of white paint to go.

The green paint upstairs is finished. A done job. Fini. The color actually got more pale and “chalky” after the second coat. I’m glad — it looks good. The trim is all up and primed, but needs paint.

Okay, who put orange paint in the bathroom?!? It looked more like terra cotta on the paint chip (and the color is called “Clay Concept”). I liked it at first … then not so much. I’m tempted to go back to white, but that would mean two more coats of primer to cover the orange and then white paint. Laziness will probably dictate that I end up with a “clay” bathroom. Just don’t call it orange.

That ends our tour for today. Thank you for coming.

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