The painters have started working on the house!
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Update on the side tables. The leg color just didn’t work. So I wiped the wax off and repainted. Amazing how fast it goes when you aren’t refinishing the top, fixing the legs and feet, but just painting. I rewaxed and done. Back in use within 30 hours.
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They look nice! I liked the previous colour as well but from what I’ve seen of your house this colour fits your style better. And 30 hours is fast!
My parent’s friend is a project manager for a large developer in my city, and my parent suggested asking them for referrals. Hopefully they’ll be able to point me in the direction of someone who can build some stairs. We hope to be able to get some painting done this weekend.
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We are still looking for some one to remodel our kitchen and move a door. Contractors are hard to find .
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We worked very hard today and made so much progress. No pictures today but hopefully tomorrow. I bought the paint for this room (craft room) a few months ago and now finally get to see the result. The colours I picked look great now the paint is dry! A dusty pink for the ceiling / attic, very subtle but much nicer than white would have been, and a berry purple for some accent walls.
We also put in the attic floor - carpet tiles. Very soft cream coloured ones. Carpet tiles have a reputation for being ugly but they are super easy to install, and these look pretty good.
It would be very convenient to use carpet tiles for the floor in my craft room as well, my mother is trying to convince me. It’s much less work than laminate flooring. Does anyone have carpet in their craft room? My gut feeling is that it looks nice and feels soft but is absolutely unpractical in a craft room. I’m mostly a fabric and yarn crafter, but I do use paper, glue and paint occasionally.
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I’d go with carpet personally if you prefer it. You can always cover the floor by where you’re working if you’re worried about paint/glue on the occasions you do use it. Plus if it’s carpet tiles, you can always replace individual tiles if they get too bad.
I’ll mainly be using paint and charcoal so I’m taking out the carpet and installing vinyl plank.
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I’ve never lived anywhere with carpet so I’m not sure how that would work with thread and fabric crumbs. But I suppose it would certainly work better than charcoal and cream carpet!
Vinyl plank would also work for this room but I’ve not found it in stores locally and I’m a little hesitant to buy it online, without seeing it first. It would be a huge hassle to empty the room completely before putting in the new floor so anything that can be installed piece by piece is great.
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I had a carpet in my craft room and it was always full of thread and fuzz. Hard to lay out fabric smoothly. And my chair did not roll easily. When I reconfigured the room and ditched the carpet (old and did not fit the new room), I fell in love with the ability to roll where I wanted. I do have some cushy mats infront of my work table and ironing board. Easy to move when I need a clear floor. But the fuzz does gather in the corners. Fabric does shed when you cut. I also do paper, paint, gluing, polymer clay, and a dozen other crafts in there.
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@Immaculata I had a sewing/craft room with a cut loop carpet once and I don’t remember it being especially difficult, but I also wasn’t doing so much making at the time and also did my cutting on the wood floor in another room. The worst part was trying to find dropped pins and needles. I imagine that a short, more commercial-style carpet wouldn’t be nearly so “trappy” for fuzz or dropped things. I’ve worked in offices with carpet and had no trouble with a rolling chair there.
Y’all! I am getting so close to done-so-far with this dang deck! The rest of the materials for the stair railings are due to arrive at the retailer on Weds. I have done a lot of preparation for installing them, so hopefully I will be able to jump right on that - even tho the weather is not looking great for working outdoors. The gate will be in that shipment, too, and that is kind of what is the milestone for us starting to look for a pup to adopt! The last two days have also had me cleaning up and storing the remnants and extras of the actual deck boards, finishing all the weed whacking to prepare for piling plowed snow, and doing some preparations for storing the pellets for our new pellet stove. TheMisterT got a wild hare and started stacking those pellets and did almost all of the THREE TONS of them today! I helped a little on a break from my deck stairs, but he did most of it. It took less than a couple hours and that’s WAY less than it would take to stack a similar amount of firewood.
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I have a rug over slate in my “studio” (half of the living room). I needle felt there, knit on toothpicks there (other knitting happens where ever), I embroider there, I sometimes hot glue there. My sewing machine is over just the slate floor and there is a dedicated waste basket near by. The rug doesn’t have a thick nap so it doesn’t hide or hold onto anything that might happen to get dropped. I only need to vacuum it now and then.
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The flooring is being delivered today and installed on Friday. I have the company who painted the rest of our house coming out tomorrow morning to give us a painting estimate. I’ve got the lights and the desktop. Just waiting on timing of painting then I can order everything else and start moving stuff in. Still no ETA on the window so that will probably be replaced after most of the stuff is already in the room.
Making progress!!
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Yayy!! I can’t wait to see the finished result. You’ve put so much time into planning this, it sounds like the end result will be amazing.
This is my new attic, above my craft room. If you go through the little door, that’s basically the boiler room, where all the neccessary but ugly things are (such as the solar invertor and the hot water heater). In the technical space, I can stand, the “nice” part of the attic is finished and that means the ceiling is a bit lower, it’s not uncomfortably low but it’s not huge. This is going to be my relaxing / reading / stitching space. The cupboard there was made by my grandparent and will hold a stack of quilts. I picked a really nice ceiling light (it looks fancy but it’s just Ikea) because you can see it when you’re in the main room.
View from the craft room. The purple colour looks slightly less red than intended, but it’s fine. It might be because of the light. But I still like this colour, it’s very bright and cheerful.
My craft room is L-shaped, and I’m working from the ‘back’ to the ‘front’ (where the door is). The ceiling will be light pink everywhere. I’ll probably paint another wall purple, but the details depend on the amount of each colour I’ll have left over by then.
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I hope so!! I’ve been trying to be very thoughtful in how I’m going to use the space to make it as functional as possible while still leaving flexibility to change things in the future.
The painter just left and he said they would be able to get the first floor painted within the next week or two! Now everyone cross your fingers that the quote he comes back with isn’t too high 
I’m loving that fuscia color in your picture 
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@photojenn I’m so excited for you! It’s wonderful how things seem to have “fallen into place.” Quotations because you’ve put so much thought and effort into research and planning!
The electrician is here! Hard-wiring the hot tub which was moved too far for the old wire, fixing a room where all the outlets haven’t worked for a year or so, and fixing it so two other outlets that stopped working while I was right in the middle of building the deck… including the one exterior outlet where I was plugging in my tools and the one closest to the door as the best back up. WOO! No idea how much it’s going to cost, but these are things that cost when they cost. We’ve used this company several times before and always been pleased and never felt screwed over. They mail a bill, so we’ll know within a few weeks.
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UPDATE: The electrician left a meter here on Tues. I called the office to let them know, he called to ask if he could pick it up at the end of the day on Weds, but did not and did not respond to my 6:30p text asking if he still planned to get it. Sigh.
ALSO, the retailer’s supplier still wasn’t able/willing to ship 2 of the posts I need for one side of my stair railing on Weds, but didn’t bother to contact the retailer. Luckily, I contacted the retailer who contacted the supplier. I had the choice of getting everything next Monday or everything-but-those-two-posts on Friday. I choice Friday, because at least I can get my gate installed with what should be coming in that shipment. I get that deck season is pretty much done in the region, but C’MON! Anyway, having the gate is a big component us being logistically ready to adopt a new pup. We’re emotionally ready.
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The painters are coming on Tuesday! The desk legs were just delivered and the tool chest is out for delivery. Things are getting real around here!
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Shouldn’t they be glad to have a customer outside of regular deck-season? And either way, you’ve spent an absolute fortune at that company, the least they can do is chase their supplier for you constantly until your deck is finished.
I hope you can finish the gate and adopt a new pup to run around on that beautiful gated porch!
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I think the retailer has been pretty good - my particular salesperson is a young guy - maybe even, like 19, and I think still learning. Everyone gets the chance to learn, he’s just not picked up about proactive follow-through most of the time!
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Ooo! Exciting!!
I’m loving all these updates but I live for the pics! Eagerly awaiting. 
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What I wouldn’t give for there to be a photo-worthy change to share! I should be able to pick up stuff today… it just depends on when it arrives at the retailer, because I have to be home around 6p for a phone interview with the pet rescue!!!
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