Adventures at The Bunny Manse

Thoughts and opinions welcome. The upstairs porch looks...off somehow.  With less direct glare of the sun.  Even less direct glare- the sashes will soon be SEQUIN yellow. That same faded butter on the porch trim you can barely see because overexposure.  Isn't is weird to talk about exposure when there's no film involved?

I just posted a ton of pictures without any content. This is because I see this as a place to collect and frame my thoughts about the house process with some images to trigger the ideas. We're so close. After this last stage (paint, gutters) we have some tile repair in one bathroom, some tile work in another bathroom + installing new fixtures, and then we just have PHASE 4 which is master bedroom + sunroom. We're not doing PHASE 4 for awhile. We need to pay off some credit cards and the like. Oh? You didn't know that at some point everyone who is not independently wealthy puts part of their renovation on credit cards balancing who has to be paid in cash and who you can float? You didn't realize that 0% interest for 12-18 month cards will provide you an interest free loan to buy materials that you then pay off in installments or move the money to other 0% cards? Yeah. We've got probably $30k of our project sitting out there on 0% credit cards right now + an equ...

Lots of pictures of the painting process. It needs to stop raining so they can finish.  These are pictures over October. Prepped, then interrupted by rain. Primed, now interrupted by rain again.  The blue you see here is the tinted primer. 

South side of the house with about 70% prep work complete. That is the tinted primer for the walls. Overall the house will be dark blue, soft yellow, and white.  There are also like 4 different grays for areas of the porch. 

Starting to look like a house...not a construction zone.  In the past three days I've done at least 20 loads of laundry and thoroughly cleaned 5 rooms. Our kitchen may not have ever been this clean.  The painters covered everything and cleaned as they went and when they finished, but there's still a fine layer everywhere that we're washing off so Margot ingests less.  Harris spent the weekend replacing the porch flooring and rot at the Little House

This picture about sums it up.

We have, at most, 21 days to get the house ready for us to live in. To this end.... Thursday : Accent Hardwood did the rough sand in suite and kitchen. Here is Madeline feeling the floor in the suite Laid 70% of new dining room floor. Madeline being a silly monster ballet girl Then David Glick, Rob, and Alvin prepped, primed, and painted the remaining two wood rooms we found downstairs. While wandering around I saw this little bit of graffiti. Wonder who Black Chicken Billy (or perhaps Boy) was/is. Today, Friday Accent Hardwood is there finishing the floor in the dining room. Century Slate is there fixing the flat roof leak and patching the two remaining holes in the slate roof at the ridge. On Saturday Harris will be laying the subfloor in that giant hole in the kitchen while I take Madeline to the Farmer's Market and Cameron's birthday party. While she's at the party, I'm going to sears to pick up the applianc...