Danelangelo

A rather transformative weekend for the House. Over the two days a rather large amount of paint was slathered on the walls and ceilings of nearly every room. With the height of the ceilings absorbing more paint than a typical house we ran out and the master bedroom is only half done. The other three rooms, passage, bathroom and laundry are all done. Well, done for stage one of three. This was the first of two base coats, with a third final coat to follow. 

We are painting with a rather non-exciting shade of white. However, the white is very nice, as far as white goes. I believe it is called Antique White USA, not to be confused with Antique White, or Antique White Europe. Those look terrible!

The Antique White USA really has made a difference, even just the undercoat. The rooms are, well, roomy. The ceiling looks really quite high. It is quite great. As The Shadow said, it has transformed the house from the old to the new. The room shapes are still quite similar to those of the original design, but adding the fresh paint - well, fresh house.

Yes, I was a major contributor to the paint slathering. Before I was co-opted to play some ball with the nephews Sunday afternoon in the blistering sun. 

Not many photos of the painted house, just the one below for now. It shows the passage ceiling with its undercoat and the non-painted walls on either side. 

The archways were supposed to have been fitted to the passage but the manufactured arches were manufactured wrong and did not fit. Another weekend.

During the week we met with the cabinet maker. We discussed the cabinetry for the bathroom, laundry, future kitchen and future study. That all went well. He left us with some samples for the stone benchtop and a couple of catalogs of cupboard designs. The benchtop colours had us second-guessing ourselves for a while, there are some standout colour designs. In the end we reverted back to what we were originally planning - more on that another time.

We discussed what we wanted for our study and that seems to be a fairly simple exercise. Prices TBD...