The drywall is done! It's all down hill from here...I think.

It took 6 days for the drywall to be hung, taped, and textured...and we lived through it.  The two older boys did not sleep in our room like we thought.  We ended up moving the mattresses into our room in the morning and pulling them back out at night so that they could continue to sleep in the family room.  It was a pain, but totally worth it for everyone's sanity.  The drywall guys did a great job keeping the mess to a minimum.  There were only two of us who stepped in a glop of "mud" during the week and it would be the two who are home most of the time (yeah, me and CET).  The guys ended up working on Saturday to finish up the job so that we would be able to start painting on Monday.  They got here in the late afternoon and finished by 10:30 pm....luckily, we had a birthday dinner to go to that night in Alameda for my grandmother's 93rd birthday, so it worked out just fine.

So, now it's time to paint. CT bought a new spray painting gadget (insert the sound that Tim the Tool Man Taylor makes) to make painting faster.  He actually bought it a while ago to paint the exterior and it works fine.  I'm a little afraid of how much mess it will make in the interior, but really, there is nothing to ruin...the floors can be white.  I haven't finalized the paint colors, but I've got two down for sure, well...maybe just one for sure.  CET wants green walls in his room, and I'm leaning towards blue.  KWT will have khaki walls and an army green accent wall.  We ordered a new quilt for CAT that will come in tomorrow, so I'll be able to pick out colors then.

In the meantime, I photographed the wood floors, stain finishes for the cabinets and countertops if you want to take a peek.  In the next blog, you should be able to see what paint colors we end up with!

CAT's room with the drywall hung.

The "office" area and the entry beyond.

Here is the kitchen taped and textured.

Our wood floor (bottom), the stain for the desk and quartz countertop. Quartz is Cambria, New Quay.  Wood flooring is Pacific Pecan in Mocha.

Wood floor, stain for the kitchen island (perimeter cabinets to be white), quartz countertop (Cambria, Torquay) and subway tile backsplash.

Ignore the carpet...Amtico vinyl flooring for the powder room with the stain for the powder room cabinet and quartz countertop.

Again, Amtio flooring, the stain for the two bathroom cabinets and the countertop.

This is for the laundry room.  The cabinets will be white for easier clean-up.  Just in case you are wondering why there is so much of the gray, swirly quartz...we had to purchase the entire slab, so we though we would use as much of it as we could. The quartz is maintenance free - so I'm good with using it everywhere!