October, 2009 Finishing renovation and getting ready to leave for Texas
Our “sun room” was coming together quickly. Now it was time to paint the walls. We made a feature wall of the common wall to the house. We painted it a “Gold Sunset” color, then sprayed white texture over it, and John trowelled down the texture, allowing some gold to show through. Despite the fact that it initially reminded John of “an old grain elevator where the birds had flown in and crapped on the walls for years”, we have had good comments and are happy with the result. We can always change it if we wish.
Then instead of buying new paint, we threw all the paint we had stored for years together and ended up with a warm beige color and did California walls – sprayed them with the mud and then painted over them. They REALLY look nice.
Next it was time to do the cathedral ceiling. This was a challenge because of the heights (two of them). However, John managed to set up the scaffolding with his ladders and an old conference table we had laying around from Sanderson Balicki. He did one half of the ceiling at a time. We had decided to go with marble ceilings, as we didn’t want regular textured ceilings. First he had to paint the ceiling with oil base paint on top of the primer. Then while it was still wet, he lit a cone of tarpaper on fire and smoked the ceiling. What an awesome sight!! Then he did the other half. It turned out beautifully!
The beam was painted plain white.
The following week, we hired a young man to lay the cobblestone lino and the room was looking great!
As soon as the lino was laid, we brought up John’s A & W table and chairs so we could sit and have our coffee at the window.
He then worked on building the large coat closet at the entrance. We decided to put our leftover laminate in the entrance, as I could not find lino I wanted for a price I was willing to pay.
It was a long deliberation as to exactly how the stairs should be built, but our neighbour John Vansil came up with an idea we hadn’t formerly considered, and we went with his suggestion. The stairs look very nice, and both the kitchen and sun room can be accessed from the landing.
We bought some pantries from Walmart and Jysk and John put them together to store all the things that I had in my former pantry.
Ted came over one evening and said he was here to help John put on the window casings. They didn’t quit until all 6 windows and the door were done. That made quite a difference as well.
That the left the stair railings to be done. We found some spindle rails at Habitat for Humanity for $1.00 a piece (compared to over $6 each at Rona) and painted them white. John built the railing and although it seemed to close off the two parts of the room, we are getting used to it and it looks lovely.
Had our “housewarming” party with a few friends and family over on Saturday night, the 17th, to thank them for all of their help.
Monday morning, we are having our A & W coffee friends over and then we can put our minds to getting ready to leave for Texas on Wednesday morning.
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