We painted the office, living room, hallway
and the
master bedroom. We started the master bedroom (the picture below) around 11pm
Sunday
night. We got to bed around 2:30am
Monday
morning.
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Jen had off Monday, so she
got another coat of paint in the office. She also sprayed insulating
foam
between the wall and the floor. We read in one of our
remodeling books to do this if you strip your flooring
down
to the subfloor. When they build houses, they typically leave a half
inch gap between the dryall and
the subfloor. I think it's
for expansion of materials and settling. The foam (which
is semi-flexible) adds an
extra layer of insulation to the mix.
After it's sprayed in, it expands, so Monday night we went around
and
cut it flush to the wall so they could
install the floors the
next day.
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On Tuesday they
started our bamboo floors. What they've done so far looks pretty
good, but of course
they've run into problems. Bamboo comes in
either horizontal or veritcal grains. We ordered vertical.
The
stair nose they ordered is horizontal. They don't look very
nice next to each other, so now we're waiting ona
a specially
ordered vertical stair nose. They also forgot the transitions
from the slate in the kitchen to the
bamboo. We
assumed by getting the same place to do all our floors this
kind of stuff would have been
figured out by them and taken care
of. We were wrong. "Bathrooms? You have bathrooms we need to
make transitions to?" I'm beginning to wonder if they've
ever done this before.
Regardless of the confusions, it really looks
nice.
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With one guy working and two guys
standing around, this is as far as they got the first
day. Lucky I'm not
paying by the hour.
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Tuesday night Jen mopped the
slate (10 times!), so we can seal the grout and I sanded the other
bedroom. We're hoping tonight we only have to mop once or twice,
then we can put the sealer down. We
also need to get some
light fixtures back up, the refridgerator cabinet back up and more
polyurathane on
our
new stairs.
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The following night while Jen
sealed the kitchen floor, I started putting some of the light
fixtures back up.
This is the ceiling fan in our
bedroom. You can also see more of the progress of the
floors.
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And here's a shot of the sealed slate floor. It
doesn't look much different from before we sealed it, which is
a
good thing. You can also see they finished the bamboo.
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Lots and lots of
pictures of the finished bamboo. This is the master
bedroom.
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The master
bedroom looking toward the closets.
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The red room or office
as we're calling it now.
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