Yellow and grey

The kids' new bath will be white, yellow, and grey. I just picked up the hand towels and shower curtain from Appetite. Tres chic!




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Tile, trim, marmoleum...oh my

Tile is going up like gangbusters. Goooo tile guys!

Also, our powder room now has our Asian Tiger orange marmoleum from the other house. It's my one way to have a piece of the old house in the new house.

Oh, Greg wants you to know that it took an astonishing 100 gallons of interior paint to paint the house walls and ceilings. Yikes. And the trim isn't even painted yet. Remind me never to paint the interior again. I think it's possible that the paint subcontractor under-estimated a bit (seriously, that is a heck of a lot of white paint). And be assured, it looks WHITE. Delightfully so.

Greg and Drew worked on the shed this week; hopefully it'll be ready to receive garage cabinets and various goodies soon. Starting tomorrow, Greg starts to put up kitchen cabinets.

A few additional pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25768433@N02/sets/72157626987086512/

In the White Room

We've been looking at interior paint colors this week. We want white. Not offwhite or cream or linen or cloud or barely [insert color here]. White-white. It has become clear that most paint companies don't make white paint. I find this extraordinary. What is more classic than white? Rodda has an entire collection of "whites" and none of them are actually white. Heavy sigh.

I believe we found something we can work with: Behr Ultra-Pure White. It's BRIGHT WHITE. Not yellowish or rosey or blueish. Just white, thankyouverymuch. Check out the color shown on the brick wall here. That is white. Those other colors shown on the walls and trim. Not white.

Now, why was that so hard?

(Note: I realize that I'm coming off as a bit pissy. I think I am growing weary of bulding our house; now I'm ready to simply live in it.)

Feeling kinda blue (the good kind)

The house is blue! An oh-so-subtle shade of blue. I have mentally dubbed it "air". Love, love, love it. Love.

Also, pieces of our stairway are going into the house.

And...we now have a railing on our balcony.

It's almost too much for words. Andrew, you are my hero of the week (well, at least so far).

More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25768433@N02/sets/72157626686147642/

Paint!

Paint should go on the house today (please, God, let paint go on the house today). It's primed, masked, caulked, ready to go!

The paint color we chose is light blueish grey and is called, appropriately enough, Mt. Rainier Grey. You'll see it in its full glory soon.

For now, a primed house:

UPDATED (more pics): Siding is on the house!

Actual siding is going up. Who-hoo! It looks very chic and grey...and definitely metallic. There will be no mistaking it for wood siding. We are capital M - Modern now.

Tres chic, no?

Better idea of exterior look and feel

Here's a new rendering of the house. The dark metal siding color (upper part) is set, and we're planning on a moderately light, moderately neutral color for the main/lower house. We're still trying to figure out where to put some color accent(s).

Rendering also posted at the PMa site. :-)
http://www.pmckean.com/residential/leedy/

Color stalemate

Oh, and in case you were wondering why I didn't update on the selection of siding and window colors, it's because Greg and I are deadlocked on the siding color. Greg wants medium cool grey and I want medium-dark warm grey. You'd think we were trying to decide on the name of our child or something. This could take a while...

Colors

Heading to a meeting today to pick out the color of the metal siding and the windows. Yay! Then we can start to talk about the colors of the other siding and the painted brick.

Window to the world

Tomorrow we meet to make final decisions regarding the windows (including window cladding color) and place the order.

Dear god of remodeling: Please let us make good choices. Oh, and please ensure that the windows are delivered on time, on budget, and exactly as ordered. Amen.