Kitchen Floor- Sanded!

The flooring guys showed up and have started the kitchen & dining room floors!

From the back door

They started by sanding & then patching the little nail holes from the old boards.

From the family room doorway

They also are doing the butler's pantry floor...

From the dining room doorway

They will sand again in the morning, so the nail hole patches will hardly be noticed, especially once stained.

Master Bedroom Drywall- almost there!

They have two days of work left in here... the third/finishing coat, and then sanding.

From the hallway door

Reverse- bathtub STILL sitting there (sigh)

There were some cracks that developed (or got worse) as the construction proceeded, so they fixed those up too!

Exterior wall

Dining Room Drywall

This was finally moving along- the rush was on to get it done so we could eat Thanksgiving dinner in there!

View from the hallway doorway

Reverse from the far corner

It's weird to see the amount of space without the old kitchen cabinets!  I am looking forward to figuring out where to put the dining room pieces (which walls to put the china cabinet, the liquor cabinet, the buffet).  But we're quite a ways off from that... we decided to do board & batten style walls in here, so the contractor will need to do that once drywalling is complete.  That'll hopefully be done in time for Christmas!

Butler's Pantry- Paint

We continued the yellow in the Butler's Pantry.  Since this is mostly covered with cabinetry, we only needed to paint the parts that would be exposed.

Looking in from the doorway

Looking out towards the kitchen & dining room

Wow- it really looks bright from that view- but once the door trim, cabinetry and accessories are added, it won't look as crazy!  The drywall guy is back working in the dining room, and has made a few comments about how I'm killing him with these colors- haha!

This cabinetry will be put in after the flooring is finished.

Kitchen Paint

While we were waiting on the floor guy, we decided to go ahead and paint the walls of the kitchen.  We were hosting Thanksgiving this year, so there was SO much we needed to get done and we were running out of time!
With the gray cabinets, I wanted to go with a bold color for the walls.  We decided on yellow!  I pulled the color from a flower print that we had purchased on our honeymoon.

The boot print on the right was taken after an Easter Egg hunt a few years ago... it will also look good with the yellow :)

View from the back door

View from the dining room doorway

View from the family room doorway

The light fixture for over the table really pops now!

Here's the section of exposed rock near the back door-
it was a little tricky to paint the edges!

I always liked the warm feeling from yellow on the walls- we had it in the kids' nursery in the old house.