Well, we worked our butts off today, trying to get the living room near completion. We actually hit almost all of our goals today, which is great. We finished the coffered ceiling trim, we got the ceiling re-painted (we had done it in semi-gloss, and I hated it, so another coat of Swiss Coffee, this time flat), caulked, Dale skim coated the wall of the sliding glass window and I finished painting the shelves! woo hoo!
The only thing we were thinking we might get to today was to install the TV/electronics, but we decided to go out for dinner and take a hot shower instead. We figure we'll be ready to do something in the morning.
I do love it with the pocket door closed! We still have a stupid place holder light fixture in the middle of the room -- we want to put a ceiling fan in, but we have so many other things to worry about that we are going to wait on that for a bit. Oh, and the recessed lights we had to pull down to paint around, I want to check out paint job in the morning. Painting a flat coat on top of a gloss coat - hard to tell what's been painted and what got missed, especially with the lights glaring right in our eyes!
I am so ready to get my boxes of books unpacked and fill the shelves, but I want to let the paint cure for a week or so. Books are heavy and I don't want them to mess up the paint job. That was 1 coat of primer and 3 coats of topcoat -- I do NOT want to paint that again.
I do still have some touch ups of the ceiling trim- I got 2 coats on today, but they could use a third. So in the morning, we'll touch up and then get some stuff moved back in, although we still have walls to work on.
The biggest project in here that we still have left is doing something with this fireplace. We are actually going to skim coat the top half and then plaster it so it is smooth, and then retile the bottom half with some ledger stone. I would LOVE to find a really nice set of fireplace doors that fit the opening -- I'll have to keep my eyes out for those. I've seen beautiful cast iron ones, but they're probably way outside what I'd like to pay. Once we decide on what kind of stone to put on the fireplace, I'm also going to tile over the brick hearth. Probably travertine or slate, but we'll see how that goes.
This spring we hope to get the french doors put in to replace the slider. We removed most of the trim from the slider before Dale redid the wall, so it should be a pretty simple affair to take the slider out. We are going to go ahead and trim out the doorway so it looks finished, it'll be pretty simple to take the trim down to replace the door when we're ready to do that.
Well, hot showers and putting our feet up. I think tonight's the last night we'll have our giant TV at the foot of the bed! I look forward to getting my bedroom back!
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