We're FINISHED painting the interior!!!

Hallelujah! We spent one week and a day painting all day to get the entire house finished on time!  My dad came and sprayed the primer throughout the house and sprayed the white on the ceilings and closets.  Then Kevin and I went in and painted. At first I was cutting in with a paintbrush and I must say I was pretty awesome at it.  Then Kevin got a little tool called the Accubrush.  It's AMAZING! It does all the work for you with cutting in.  I recommend it if you want nice clean lines, look on Amazon, that's where we ordered ours from, you can also watch videos about it on youtube.  We finally found the perfect grey for our downstairs.  The problem with grey is that when you get it on the wall it can look blueish or even purplish.  So, I recommend getting samples and trying them out first. We ended up getting four samples and finally found 'the one'.  We went with Behr paint for the interior. I will list the colors under the pictures.
The finish truck has arrived and will be unloaded TOMORROW! We are in the home stretch people! We are so excited to finally move into our dream home.  The first to be installed are the cupboards I believe. I will try to get out there to take pictures any chance I get.  On to the pics...

 Living room. Behr:Gentle Rain

 Living room.

 Kitchen.

 Downstairs half-bath.

 Inside the half-bath.

 Dining room.

 Office.

 Master bedroom. Behr:Gentle rain.

The laundry room, I LOVE how it turned out! Behr: Adriatic mist.

 Spare room/exercise room. Behr:Nurture.

 Our eldest daughter's room.  The pink accent wall is Behr:Springtime Bloom with Valspar silver sparkles. You can't see the sparkles unless the sun is shining on it.  The yellow is Behr:Gold buttercup.

 Behr:Gold buttercup.

 

 Our youngest daughter's room.  The most perfect shade of pink, not too bright or overpowering! Behr:Delicate rose.



Painting sneak peek.

     The mudding and texture ended up being a week late. Tom our mud guy was able to bust it out all in a few days and got it done yesterday afternoon, so that we could start painting today!  Right now we're spraying the primer and then we will spray the white areas (office, spare room, closets, bathrooms and ceilings).  Tomorrow we will be able to start painting the room colors.  We went with a light grey for the main house areas and master bedroom, a green-blue for the laundry room, pale pink for our youngest daughter's room, and pale yellow with a bright pink accent wall for our eldest daughter's room.  We also finally decided on the exterior paint colors for the house, also grey.  I forgot to get any pictures of the colors though.  Here's what's happening so far today:

 Dining room.

 Kitchen.

 Looking into the living room.

 Looking into the kitchen.

Dining room.

We found a cricket in the master bedroom! Which is good luck! :)

Drywall!

The house was finally dry enough to put up the exterior insulation.  Today the drywall was finished in the house, then the mudding will begin next week. We should be painting the interior by next weekend!  I sent Kevin to get paint samples mixed for the different rooms, I am eager to get them on the walls and see how they look.

The utility trech filled in.

Insulation downstairs.

 Upstairs front bedroom.

 Looking into the kitchen.

 The front door.

 Looking into the kitchen.

 Downstairs half bath.

 The living room!

 Master bedroom.

 Upstairs hallway.

 Upstairs front room.

The other upstairs front room.

Utilities pt 2

We're STILL waiting for the house to dry out. This nice warm spring weather should help with the drying out.  But in the meantime we have been busy doing backfill, utility trenching, french drain installation and some interior wall insulation.  The rain gutters were just put up last week.  The front door area was torn out and is waiting to be rebuilt sometime this week. 
Clayton our excavator's son was hard at work the last couple of weeks, doing all of our backfill, french drains (which they did at an excellent price), and utility trenching.  He did a great job helping us figure out the landscaping with the slope we have.  Kevin has also been working on putting in our water line, he will be out tomorrow to finish it up so it can be inspected by the city.
We finally made a decision on the granite for the kitchen and downstairs half bath.  We went with Granite Mafia in Medford and Becky the owner gave us a fantastic deal on gorgeous 'Blue Pearl' granite!  Kevin and I are so excited to see it installed! I would definitely recommend going to her if you want granite! 

The utilities at the street.

 The trench for the water line.

 Clayton doing the backfill in the backyard.

 The side yard now has a slight slope to the upper flat level.

 The view from the back yard.

 The french drain trench. The pipes tie into the gutter drains.

 Here's the insulation I did in the laundry room, it's not stapled yet so that's why it looks so wrinkly.

 Insulation in the master bedroom, the left side hasn't been stapled yet.

 The front door torn out.

 The master bathroom side window was broken. Adair was already on top of it and it will be replaced.

 

The Blue Pearl granite we ordered! :)