The Big Move

This week it was painting, painting and more painting.  There was still some undercoating to do on the second floor but the main floor was ready to take the top coat.  The main colour went on in the great room first as the fireplace needed to go in.  Our choice for the main colour in the house was ‘vanilla ice cream’  And no – it isn’t magnolia….. 🙂

The fireplace, which looks amazing, went in over 3 days.  We chose a light coloured natural stone to help keep the room looking light and modern.  We think that it has worked out really well.  The fireplace team did a great job.

In between the coats of paint going on the walls, our builders also managed to lay the tiles in the bathroom upstairs.

In the gallery you will see a couple of pictures of the ice coming from the drainpipes.  It warmed up slightly and so all of the snow melted and was running off the roof, but then the temperature dropped and we were left with ice…..

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These past 2 weeks have mainly consisted of 3 tasks at the house.  Crack-filling, undercoating and deck laying.

The crack filling was a very time consuming and tedious job for the guys.  Each day you could tell it was becoming more and more laborious.  I imagine it was one of those jobs where the end is never really in sight.  There were so many gyp rock screws to cover up and corners to tidy up….not to mention the joins in the gyp rock.  Not a job I would have liked to have undertaken myself.

After they had finished with the filling they started the undercoat to get ready to take the final colours.

While the builders worked on the inside of the house, Nick and I went to Halifax to choose a fireplace stone.  The stone that we had originally picked we could not have as there were not enough corner sections in the whole of Atlantic Canada.  They were stuck ona boat somewhere with not ETA :(.  Still it wasn’t all bad.  We found another stone that we love – and… it is better than the first one we picked.  As we were in HAlifax we also stopped by the flooring shop and picked up part of the order.  We bought back all of the grout for the tiles, the bars for the top of the tiles and some cartons with something in (not sure what)  The lady at the shop informed us that it was going to take our car plus 2 trips by our builder with his truck to get it all to the house.  We had 2 tons of flooring and supplies to go with it (and that didn’t include the wood for the downstairs).

The following day we took the supplies to the house and found that while we had been in Halifax they had built the deck on the back of the house 🙂  All of the wood that was used for it, Nick and I painted with the waterproofing solution.  It took us a few hours to do but was well worth it.

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