Adventures at The Bunny Manse

The first hint of tint appeared in the dining room today. The wall with the hall to the kitchen Where one day a window will be again - and a wall that is not tinted for comparison I touched it. It felt cold and smooth and, if I pressed my lips to the wall, an imprint of my kiss might very well stay there forever.

Just the smallest part of the dining room ceiling remains to be plastered. Then....the hallway ceiling. Then.... color. Tints acquired !

Hallway = calla lily: Mythic: 139-2 Suite room = Lemon Tart: Mythic: 098-3 Dining Room =All's Quiet Mythic: 136-2 Kitchen =

David Glick came over and scraped, primed, and painted the kitchen white for us. Shot of the priming action... We're going to have a basic kitchen that builds up to fancy kitchen. When we move in our requirements are cooking, cooling, and cleaning. As long as we can do this, we're good.

What a time! Ed and Brad have spent 18 days at the Bunny Manse working on the plaster repair in the dining room, suite downstairs, main hall, and butler hall.  They have scraped, opened cracks, bolted the plaster to the wall, repaired holes, and provided the new base coat on top of all of this. Every night we go up and there is visible progress. By the end of next week the walls and ceilings in this section of the house we will occupy should be finished and colored. We figured out the cost of time and money of ripping out the plaster, rippping out the lathe, disposing of all of that, reinsulating the walls, firing the 2x4s, putting up drywall, priming the drywall, and then providing the finish painting to the drywall. Much more labor intensive and expensive than Ed. While Ed is by no means inexpensive, his work is beautiful, professional, and will last longer than we will in this house.  If you think about ripping out original plaster and lathe because there are a few...

Insanity. plaster repair is under way. Termites are dead or suffering with 140 gallons of Termidor. Bill pulled up the first layer of vinyl this evening and put a bunch of junk outside for the dumpster that arrives on Thursday.

Bug Apocalypse begins today! Custom Termite is there, right now, killing all sorts of things!

In the kitchen we excavated through seven layers.... top layer of glued on vinyl OSB floor tiles (the glue down 1sqft kind) Layer of plywood Floor tiles (the glue down 1sqft kind) Layer of chip board (still smells like pine when it's broken) Original linoleum THEN Two inch wide planks on top of a sub-floor! But maybe you want a better sense of what we're getting in to up here...