At this very moment we have a “Sheetrock Specialist” in our house texturing our walls and getting them ready to be primed and painted!! Woo! Hoo! This is the final stretch folks. So here is the line-up….Sheetrock textured, paint on walls, cabinets in kitchen, install floors and move in…hopefully all before July. Sounds like a heavy load but I am ready to roll my sleeves up and jump in. So, what have we been doing this past month you ask? Weeeellllll......Matt has been a busy, busy bee. The house is completely sheet rocked thanks to Matt, Paul and Sally who logged in many hours on the weekends and after work to get the house ready to be textured. He also has been working tirelessly every day after work installing the following retaining walls. Here is a before and after picture:
As you can see in the pictures we ripped out the fence with the dead vines on it and put in the retaining wall with steps. 
Here is a picture of the side of the house as well, where he put up some more wall.
Here is Matt putting up ceiling sheet rock with the handy-dandy lift thingy we rented...let me tell you, ceiling sheet rock is darn heavy! And Matt was doing this all on his own...isn't he wonderful...awwww.....
If you look in the background of the picture you can see the window that we framed in as a pass-through window onto the front porch. We are still waiting for this and the sun room windows to come in. The window is directly above the stove in the picture, we are not going to cut it out until the actual window arrives to lessen the increasing number of bugs we are collecting in the house.
And now for the sheet rock pictures! First up is the Dining room looking towards the kitchen:
These are our new windows that are looking out onto the front porch. To orient yourself you can kind-of see these windows to the left of the picture above.
This is the Living room looking out towards the Sun room and conversely the Sun room looking out into the Living room in that order:
This is the Sun room looking out onto the back yard...notice there are no windows...yeah...I noticed that too! They are supposed to come in this Thursday...but that is what they said last week. I am beginning to feel that this is their stock answer. But when the windows come in imagine a beautiful stain glass window of an ocean scene with a sea turtle in the middle window.
Lastly, this our beautifully sheet rocked spare bedroom with it's new window! Sorry that the picture only shows a corner of the window but in the previous blog you can see the big hole we cut for it so you can imagine the window in all it's glory.
This weekend is paint, paint, paint. As soon as the texturing is done we will be priming the heck out of the house and I will be whitewashing all wood on the ceilings and walls to help brighten up the place. I hope my whitewashing skills are up to par! Before I whitewash I took a few pictures of what the wood looks like. Keep in mind that this is after I already cleaned and sanded the wood...it was pretty dark and greasy looking. These pictures are of the loft and the master bedroom.
Stay tuned because I have a big surprise for the next installment!
