Cabin Progress

We're making progress on the cabin - hurray!
We've spent the past three weekends painting. The first two weekends we painted primer on all the new sheet rock. This past weekend we started putting color on the walls.

Here are the stairs with primer on the risers and curtains (the white parts) and paint on the wall.
(I'll get some better pictures next time we go to the cabin.)

This is the guest bedroom. I don't know when we are going to insulate and finish the block walls (in white) - so I think I need to pick a paint color to paint the blocks. After I painted the green on the sheet rock I decided I did not want the block walls to be green, but I don't know what color to pick - maybe a darker brown?

This is our game room/bedroom. The walls are not quite as blue as in this picture. The paint color is called kiwi splash and changes from light blue to light green with the light. I can't wait to get the furniture back where it belongs, and get trim on the doorways and woodwork. I don't know if you can really see the hallway color, but it is painted a color called dusty trail. It's the same color as the wall going up the stairs.

Next weekend I hope we'll be painting the family room and putting a second coat of paint on the stairway wall. Maybe I can even start painting the risers on the stairs. And, we need to paint the upstairs bathroom too. So much painting!!! We need to get it done soon because it's getting nice outside and we won't want to be working inside anymore. Besides, I'm getting tired of having every room under construction.

For some earlier pictures of the cabin, check out these previous posts:

Cabin Progress

Family Room - Before

Cabin Projects

Cabin Progress

A couple of weeks ago I wrote bout some work that was going to be done at our cabin. (here)
Then we left for our trucking adventure and weren't at the cabin for three weeks. We wondered how the work was coming along, and if we'd like it when we saw it. We were so excited to come up north and see it for ourselves. It almost felt like the day before Christmas.
And we weren't disappointed. This is what we saw when we opened the door:

Our stairway and landing is done, and it's exactly as we wanted it! See how the landing is as wide as the stair treads? And how that bottom step wraps around to meet the bench? And that the corners on the bottom step and landing match?

We still need to paint the risers and curtains after the sheetrock has been taped, and we need to finish the floor - either with concrete paint, or some kind of tile.

At the top of the steps is our family room, and that had been insulated but the walls and ceiling just had plastic over the insulation. Now the walls and ceiling are sheetrocked.

Before:

And now:

Here are a few more before and after pictures.

 

The next steps are: building a frame for the window seat in the bump out and installing it. Finishing the sheetrocking around that. And then, taping all the sheetrock. After the taping is finished we would like to put pine tongue in groove on the ceiling. You may ask, why did you sheetrock the ceiling if you're going to put up wood? One reason is so that the room is sealed - no insulation or outside air will get through. The second reason is strength - the sheetrock helps hold up the insulation. And the last reason is that we don't know exactly when we'll get the wood done and at least the ceiling is covered.

It looks like a whole different room with the sheetrock done and no furniture (except the TV, which we had to move there so we could watch it. Don't you love the cords all the way across the room?)

It is so much fun to see the progress!

PS - wonder what we did with the furniture?

Here it is: