Painted and ready to roll

Woo hoo! 2 coats of paint on it all.

The final choices were:

• great room and upstairs - Navajo white (I don't care what they say, it ain't white)
• master bedroom - Valley Mist (hmmm, I really wanted more green than blue, but it is pretty)
• bathroom - Cornsilk

We should be able to reasonably use it soon. Next week we start cleaning and getting ready to start getting settled. Can't wait to get things organized. I'm tired of the mess. The shower and toidie can go in too. Technically the tile should be put in the bathroom first, but I think I'll try to figure out a temporary fix for now. Tile probably won't go in until next year. We'll start putting the cedar plank ceiling up downstairs as well. It's a 3 day weekend, a little work, a little play, should be nice.

The first pic is the dining area and a bit of the kitchen. It's all open concept. Notice the plugs and switches all have covers on them too. We're starting to get civilized here.

2nd pic of the wood stove in the sitting area.

3rd pic is the master bedroom.

And just so you don't think we're NOT enjoying ourselves too. Here's a pic of Bill getting the fire going. We've been cooking our evening meal over the campfire. Steaks, baked potatoes and roasted corn on the cob. Oh yeah, we're roughing it.

Ready to paint!

This weekend went well. We got everything accomplished we intended to.

It took me a full day of cleaning to get things ready. There was soooo much drywall dust everywhere. The poor vacumn cleaner was majorly stressed out.

But, everything is now primed and all ceilings that will not be cedar have been painted with 2 coats of ceiling paint. So...we're ready for painting the walls.

Now to decide on colours. I took a gazilion paint chips up and sat on the deck looking around at the colours in our surroundings. Then held the possibles up to a cedar sample. I still haven't decided.

Oh, and another thing....I HAVE A BED!!!! No more sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. Woo hoo!!!

more pics

Taking decorating ideas.....

ok, pics already....

Well, Stef (the Admin Asst at work) has been bugging me about putting pics up and we finally have something to show. So.....here are some pics showing (proving) the latest progress.

And since pictures are worth a thousand words, I don't feel the need to say much more.

Ceilings and walls

Well, we started on the cedar plank ceilings this last weekend. Upstairs first because we have to get the ceiling up before the stairs go in. Why, you ask? Because the ceilings are so high, we need the scaffolding and we wouldn't be able to get the scaffolding down once the stairs are in. So, upstairs first, then we can quit climbing a ladder to get upstairs. At the rate we're going, it will take a full month to get the ceilings all up. The planks are only 4 inches wide, so it's taking forever. We got 1/2 of the 2nd floor done over the weekend. It goes slower than we expected, but then I guess everything has.

Drywalling is happening this week. Bill talked to the guy yesterday and the walls are all up, now they're mudding and sanding and such. Can't wait to see it.

We moved mattesses and box springs up to the cottage as well. They're stored in the shed right now, but I want to get them into the cottage itself asap. So...as soon as the drywalling is done, they'll go in. Don't want any critters to get too comfortable.

Pex vs copper

Since the last post, we've concentrated completely on the plumbing. This whole project it seemed no matter how many times I planned it out on paper and no matter how many times we went to the hardware store with a list, we always seemed to come up short on supplies. We were always buying what we thought would be way more than we needed but it was always some odd ball thing that we ran short of. Originally we were going to do all the hot lines in copper and the cold in pex, but the pex was so easy and is supposed to hold up much better to freezing conditions than copper, that we decided at the last minute to not use the copper we had at all and to go with pex completely.

This being a 4 day weekend because of Canada Day, the plan was to go up Friday and work and have the entire plumbing system layed out with everything in line (sort of like a dry run). The idea was to get it all set out and lengths cut with fittings and connectors and such in place and then we'd just go back with the rented crimpers and crimp all of the connections on Sunday or Monday.

Friday before we left, I had it all laid out with the exception of the pex line for the hot water to the 2 sinks (remember we were going to use copper). So I made up a list for Bill with a few extra things (just in case) and he was to pick up everything when he went to rent the crimpers. Jessica was coming to visit, so we would not be at the cottage on Saturday.

Sunday, I finished up the rest and started right in with the crimping. Working with the pex hose was really quite easy and the crimping went along much easier than I expected. Almost too easy it seemed. Once I was done and we primed the system I kept expecting to see water squirting out all over.

But, surprise, surprise, it looks good. We got the pump running and we now have running water. Now, back to the store to take back all that extra stuff.

Next stop......drywalling.