Some Progress is Being Made...

October 15, 2012

This is the original date I thought we would be done with the kitchen...  oh well, not to be so...  I have been feeling useless as I haven't been able to do much with my back acting up, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and do something to make me feel productive.  (cleaning the dust every ten minutes does NOT make you feel productive)

Some of you may remember that we painted the world map in the living room a few years ago.  Well, it took forever, and when it was done, I swore I would never do it again.  The only problem is that I was never pleased with the final product because I didn't like the colors.  So I told David that since we were doing the remodel, I wanted to paint over it.  He would have none of that because he really likes having a world map in the living room.  Well, I don't like the colors, so I said I was going to repaint it. (What was I thinking???)

Here is what the map used to look like... (very 1970's, don't you think?)

So, the kids and I started to repaint the map.  Meanwhile, David was working on installing the underfloor heating and then insulating it.  It was a bit precarious walking around in there and standing on movable boards in order to paint the map...

David's handiwork...

Sometimes I get a little too focused and just want to finish things so I end up working late into the night...

Below the basic colors have been painted, but there is oh so much more to do to make it look antique...

First, I wanted to make the wall around it look kind of like suede...

Then I finished the antique look over the entire map. Here is the finished product...

While I was busy with the map, David finished the underfloor heating and began spray insulation in the ceiling above the kitchen.

Since David finished that, they can sheet rock the ceiling today, YES!

The drywall has been put up between the kitchen and music room, so you can see how the space lays out a bit better now.  The archway leads into the kitchen.  The orange foam you see behind the ladder I will explain in the next picture...

These are where the pipes from the kids' bathroom come down the wall and into the basement below.  When we changed from the old cast iron pipes to the pvc pipes, the noise of the water coming through the pipes became unbearable.  So we are trying to sound insulate it.  So far, this has not worked very well.  We are going to have to put up both sound barrier sheet rock as well as a vinyl sound barrier and hope that will take care of the problem.  I will have to keep you posted on that one...

Here is the view from the kitchen towards the music room.  The venting you see are the ducts leading up to the kids' bedrooms.  The railing in the foreground will be the raised bar in front of the stove.

So at least this week it looks like things are moving along a bit.  I keep hanging on to the fact that I am going to love this when it is all finished...
~Mary