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We are in the process of selecting (exterior and interior) paint colors right now. This picture gives an idea of the general palette - cool greens and blues inside, most likely pink on the outside.
Also, Matt has utterly and completely removed every scrap of anything from the entirety of the wood floors inside, and sanded, swept and dusted them clean in preparation for finishing this week. I like the little warning sign he made for the front door. Today he is going to condition (with mineral spirits) and then finish (with oil-based semi-gloss polyeurethane sealer) the whole house, and in a couple of days (since it's going to be rainy and that first coat will dry slow) put down another coat. They will look so great!!
I just hope they dry and cure in time for the next round of subcontractors to come in - electric, plumbing, HVAC and carpenters - to do all the finish work. You'll notice the little space heaters in the picture - we have to have those because we aren't allowed to turn on the gas to heat the place until we pass the final mechanical and plumbing inspections, but we can't pass those until electric is done, but we can't have electric work done until we finish painting, but we can't even BEGIN painting until the FLOORS are done. I don't know how people usually do it, but in my experience scheduling all these various trades and inspections to flow together smoothly has been a confusing jigsaw puzzle at best, and a waking nightmare the rest of the time. But onward we go, in a wet and rainy week, hoping for the floors to dry fast enough for work to resume next week. SIGH.
UPDATE
"Waking nightmare" is actually a little overstating things. It's more like an "expensive heartburn".
