Laundry chute!

Just some fun with Sarah while we make some siding decisions. Stay tuned!

More drywall and some more insulation

Here's some more pictures of the drywall:


Stairwell (looking down from the top floor):

kitchen:
long view of kitchen from family room:

Main floor view of stairwell:
Rebekah and Sarah's room:
Master window:
hallway upstairs:
Hannah's room:
Josiah's room:

Insulation to finish the walls in the laundry room:

Drywall underway

They started putting in sheet-rock on Wednesday. The rooms look so very different with walls! Josiah helped to fix a couple of framing issues together with Chuck and his son Mark. It's such good experience for him to be involved in the process.

We also spoke to the Duron/Sherwin-Williams paint guy this morning. We're hoping to use a low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paint, like the kind they use in hospitals and schools to keep odor and fumes down. I think the paint guy thought we were a bit nuts to put that in our house, but we're pretty sold on the idea. No accounting for taste, I suppose.





Let's see...we've ordered the cabinets and countertops. Flooring estimates are coming in for laminates and hardwoods. Next week they should start the siding (we're using a Certainteed product for that). So things are finally moving along pretty well!

Blue fun in the walls?

A few months ago, our family purchased a whipped cream which was supposedly raspberry flavored. To punctuate this exciting flavor, the company had added blue coloring. Our family nicknamed this strange concoction "blue fun". Surprisingly enough, the foam insulation which they have been blowing into our new house's walls looks very much like this "blue fun". It is actually a "closed-cell" insulation which when dried, is very much like a Styrofoam cup material. Don't ask me why it's blue, it just is. But the house is very air-tight! It's supposed to keep the inside a very consistent temperature and retards insect activity in the walls to boot.

Tomorrow we hope to pass insulation inspection as well as finally passing the framing inspection. Then next week: drywall & siding!




We also placed the tubing on our solar tube which will bring light down into the darker hallway in the master bath (during the day, at least!). Eventually when the ceiling is in, this will have a light fixture cap to diffuse the light just a bit.


Here you can see the difference between the wall before and after the foam is sprayed on.