They call it progress

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." -Plato

Changes to the house are there--you just have to look really close or you might miss them. The guest bath is primed and one wall is painted. The cement board is also up along the bathtub so we can add the nice new tile we bought. The fridge and washer & dryer are hooked up and working!! The subfloor in the hallway, dining room, living room and front bedroom have all been vacuumed in 4 inch strips with the shop vac, which means the drywall dust is gone. And, the front bedroom is primed and the ceiling is painted. Its almost time for a new paint color! I wanted a color for the front bedroom that would match some of my art that was bold but not too dark. Kade looked through the entire paint sample book thing last night and made fun of 92% of the color names, but I think "Lakeshore" is the front runner for the front bedroom wall color. The living room color is up next...

"Lakeshore"

What are the colors of happiness???

Is it the tile shade called "Himalaya Noche" that Kade installed in the guest bath on Friday night?? Or is it the "Alabaster" colored grout he added yesterday?? (Pics are pre-grout.)

"Himalaya Noche" tile

Or is it the soothing color called "Whistler" added to the primed over purple drywall in the bathroom?? But it might be the pretty iridescent specks in in our Caffe Rocca granite countertop that we hope our green/gray/bluish wall color will accent...

Almost Not Homeless

Living room entertainment center area and double doors

From the living room looking into the dining room and kitchen

Master bedroom window & walls

Master bedroom fireplace & window

Master bedroom closet (right) and hallway (left)

The mudding and taping begins today!!! Here are more random drywall pics from my camera phone from yesterday afternoon.

No more potato sticks...

Looking into the dining room from the kitchen--Galloway's archway is beautiful!

Standing in the dining room--to the right is the hall to the master bedroom and to the left is the living room

Ladies and Gentlemen: We have drywall!!!!! Kade called me yesterday at 1:00 p.m. and said all of the drywall had been carried into the house. When I got there at 5:30 p.m., all of the rooms were done execpt for the back bedroom and the master bath. The drywall looks AMAZING!! It doesn't even look like the same house. So as of yesterday we still had walls that looked like giant potato sticks and now we have real walls. It is incredible! All of the walls still have to have mud and tape, etc. but there are rooms and closets, and it looks like a newly constructed house!!! The pics below from my cell phone are all I have of the new look. Hopefully the camera place can fix my camera so I can take nicer shots for you to see. (The images should get larger if you click on them.)