Sneak peek... Railing

Darla from Northwest Stair and Rail sent me some progress pics of our railing...

This is the upper railing from different angles. LOVE the scroll work and can't wait to see it painted and installed!!  Not to mention that I FREAK OUT whenever anyone gets near the temporary 'railing'. Will feel much better when the permanent railing is done.

Tile started

I went out this morning and removed the spacers and wiped all the tile down to clean off any excess thinset.

I'm pleased with the spacing and tile choice.  Can't wait to get some grout in there and see it finished.

Thin set

While I could look at pictures of the outlets installed in my home all day, I am told that not everyone shares my feelings. But then I get CHASTISED for not POSTING. So here is our latest Lowes purchase. 18 bags of thin-set for laying ALL THAT TILE. 

This is the tile for the Laundry room:

And, of course, the majority of the downstairs will be this:

Tile started...Finally!

It's been a rough weekend around here. Our Titan was hit by a car early Saturday morning. He was an amazing part of our family and is sorely missed. 

So our Saturday plan of laying tile didn't go so well.  We did get a late start on it today, though.  

We have learned through this house building project that when you are doing most of the work yourselves, it takes much, much longer than if you pay the pros but the reward of seeing what we are accomplishing is worth it. This is all the tile we got laid during the majority of the day. Hailey helped, also.  It's bound to go quicker as we get into a rhythm. There's still SO MUCH more to do...

Two for two!

A shout out to Tyler at Sherwin Williams in Smokey Point!  He has come through, despite my doubts, with both colors in my craftroom. I now love them! Now I want the paint to hurry up and dry so I can install the stained glass wall sconce I picked up on CL about *cough* 5 years ago *cough*...

These pictures just aren't doing this awesome color justice.

More painting

Well, I thought we had painted the bathroom in the craftroom white but in the light of day, we only painted the ceiling... So I went to visit my buddy, Tyler, at Sherwin Williams today and got a few shades lighter than the Exclusive Plum he had suggested for the accent wall in the craftroom.  

Yes, all three pictures are of the same paint. Sigh. I guess I'll wait until tomorrow and see what it looks like in the light of day.

Outlets, second round

The only thing more fun than installing outlets in your new home is uninstalling those outlets and installing different ones! Tom thought he'd save a couple bucks by getting the slightly cheaper round outlets and covers. 

Unfortunately, they did not mesh aesthetically with the decora light switches. I couldn't live with that so I'm switching them all out. I'm about 95% done.