Exterior Paint & Interior Trim Details - Week 27, Monday

Moment of truth...The house is painted! I've been pretty nervous today because it's a big commitment to chose a house color. And I really hope I picked right :) 

The trim was painted first, a nice soft buttercream color, and next the siding, a dark steely gray. To be honest, the color isn't quite what I expected from the dark, warm gray swatch painted by the front door a few weeks ago, but I really like it! I can't wait to see what it looks like when the plastic is all off and you can see the contrast between the siding, trim & windows.

Still all taped up, but painted!

The siding color is not perfectly represented here. You can see some of the trim color around the windows and on the upper part of the columns.

Kind of a dark photo....

Back porch wearing it's smock.

Better glimpse of the siding color. It's not quite this dark in person though.

Back porch trim

Siding

 Inside the house there are a few new details since Sunday also!

Wainscoting in the dining room

Wainscoting detail

More dining room detail

Kitchen coffee bar with the cabinet fronts on (still waiting for it's drawer fronts though)

Upper cabinets & wine rack at the coffee bar

Built Ins, Trim, Cabinetry, & Exterior Paint - Week 26, Sunday

Today was a beautiful sunny Portland Sunday. Rare we can say that in April! With three days in a row of sun, it meant that the painters could do the exterior of the house! It was perfect weather to visit the house and I hope the sunshine made it a little easier for the guys working away their weekend there too! The team has been very busy and I greatly appreciate them working on the weekends to get us done on time.

Here are some new pictures of what they have been up to:

Walnut shells of the built-ins in the Living Room 

Kitchen bench - this will be nice for taking off shoes at the back door and it opens so you can store a few pairs inside!

Walnut Kitchen Island

Pantry Storage

More Pantry Storage - I'm pretty excited to have this space!

Kitchen Cabinets in process

More Kitchen Cabinets - Glass uppers

Dining/Living Room Built-ins

Don't you have a saw in your living room?

Brand New Dining Room Built-ins

Master Bathroom Bench with Openable Compartments

Master Bath Vanity (on the top back is the custom drawer for my hair dryer & curling iron. I saw it on Houzz and they recreated it for me. So cool!)

Master Bathroom behing the velvet rope, er, blue tape.

Beginnings of the basement bar

Basement Window - I was wondering how they would tackle this because the original outer foundation was not square with the framed walls. This looks like a pretty clean solution! You can see it better below.

Inside the uneven windowsill

Basement Cabinets - All the cabinets have soft close doors and drawers. It's such a nice feature and I didn't realize it would be on everything. A very nice surprise :)

Our "free" bookshelf in the basement :)

Laundry Room - I think this will be my favorite room in the house...

Landry Room - Custom built-in wall for wrapping paper, ribbons, fabric rolls, you name it!

Landry Room - again.

New crown moulding in the Living Room

More crown molding

Painted trim & garage door!

I think my little North Pole Apple Tree likes it here. These are it's best blooms in almost 3 years!

Painted trim

Painted trim & Garage door

Back of the house with the painted trim

Painting away!

Our soon to be gone willow tree

Basement window

Looking up

Front steps under wraps

Week 26, Wednesday 4/18/12

Since my posts have been very delayed. I am going to throw these pictures up on the blog that I took yesterday and fill in the blanks later...Please bear with me!

New Walnut Living Room Built-ins - Of course, not in place yet :)

They will flank either side of the fireplace

Kitchen Island - Currently in the dining room...

New Dining Room Built-ins

Close-up of the wood panel construction over the cabinet frame

Kitchen Coffee Bar

Kitchen Cabinetry!

Kitchen - Corner Lazy Susan

Kitchen - More cabinets

Kitchen - Again, more cabinets

Kitchen - Slide-out trash on the right

Kitchen - Small area trimmed out already. This is how all the cabinets will look when finished.

Pantry Drawers

More Pantry Organization

Kitchen - Shoe bench on the left by the coffee bar

Powder Bath - Vanity all covered in beautiful walnut

Cabinet doors occupying the office

Kitchen Cabinet door close-up

Basement - Future bar! (Riley's house highlight)

Not sure what this little guy is, but I'm sure he'll be used.

Basement Bathroom - Staggered cabinets

Better photo of the Basement Bath tile

Bathroom floor close-up- I can't seem to rotate this photo for some reason (please turn your head counter-clockwise to view)

Basement Bathroom - Shower walls

Basement Bath - Cabinetry bases

Basement Bedroom - Doorway to under-stair storage area

Landry Room - Desk

Laundry Room - Cabinets in progress

Upstairs Hall Bathroom - Cabinet beginnings & a door

Upstairs Hall Bathroom - Shelves

The shelves go all the way to the ceiling!

Master Bath - The floors are in!

Master Bath

Master Bath - Storage bench

Master Bath - Floor close-up. The diagonal texture is pretty fun :)

Master Bath - Shower walls

Master Bath - Shower (The black pencil liner in here is one of my favorite features in the house. I wanted to do it through the whole bathroom, but it was going to bring us way over budget. I'm sure I'll be just as happy having it only in here.)

Fully trimmed stairway

We went by the house again today and there wasn't too much more to see expect all the cabinetry guys were busy, busy, busy working! They were trimming out the cabinets and getting them set into place. Pretty exciting! Looks like a real house now and not just an empty box.