PAINT!

The good news about having a painter pass out in your kitchen is you subsequently get your living room painted....for free!

We chose tame teal, I nice light blue green which I am in love with! So much so that we decided to pay the painters to also paint the ceiling and the kitchen. Feeling like the colors needed to be a little crazier, we chose a bright peach. It may seem weird but I found these great curtains....give it some time! I really love it.

Scrambletron also got some more reno in this past weekend. Bear and I attended a lovely wedding in Galveston so Ziggy went to the hotel for dogs that is my sister-in-law's house. At some point she was shut in the garage and decided the only way to make the best of it was to destroy a little of the garage drywall. For good measure she pooped on the floor. Needless to say, my sister-in-law really, really, loves having Scrambles over.

At this point I feel like I am going crazy in my own home. Expecting something to happen with the granite this week was obviously overly optimistic of me. As it turns out, the fabricator has eight jobs lined up. To make matters worse, it takes up to five days to fabricate the granite (optimistic?). That would put the fabricator eight weeks out from being at our house. I guess the bright side is that our GC is looking for another fabricator with less jobs...my question, why are so many people getting granite at this exact time? and in this economy?!

Somehow the progress seems to be regressing.

Ziggy hanging out in the car and getting ready for some demo!

Huffing some paint and hanging out at Zilker

I was pretty stoked to get this past Friday off for Austin City Limits Music Festival...that was until I got home. That was where I found our painters barricaded in the kitchen with fumes so strong that I couldn't walk into the house. The front door was open, but not one single window in the entire house was open. I wondered if these guys ever even used oil paint before. I looked at the guy and said "no window" to which his reply was a smile and a "Hi". I decided it was best to not hang out in the fumes so I opened the windows and went to the back yard. Fast forward to 8:00 pm, painters still in the house, and me and Bear start hearing loud bangs coming from

the kitchen. Concerned, Bear went in only to find the painter laid out on the floor in the kitchen. After several attempts to get them to leave the contractor was called who then drove to our house and then drove the painters home. The incident left us with half primed cabinets, a small hole in the wood floors, some craizily rigged paint sprayer extension, and a house that could get you high on paint in a matter of 60 seconds.

After a discussion with our contractor where we had to explain that to paint with oil paint you open windows, the cabinets are on there way to being painted. And we were able to thoroughly enjoy our ACL weekend. Just look at EBear rockin' out!

Currently we are on coat 1 on the drawers, and the cabinets and doors have all been primed.

Just look at those shiny drawers. With any luck, the painting should be done on Friday. I guess, if anything, the take home message here is that oil paint is messy and smelly, so if you are ever planning on painting cabinets with oil based paint, its better to hire someone else to do it....as long as they don't dig getting high on paint :)

In other news, my teeth and almost 95 percent healed, which is great because I was starting ot miss food! And my invisiline pictures just came in. I approved and decided to order and pay the old fashioned american way...on credit! But its interest free!

In gutter news, the downspouts have yet to be put in and ground around the french drain still needs to be leveled....lets hope it doesn't rain!

Floors!

First off I apologize if this update is a little strange, but after a weekend of vomiting the hydrocodone has finally decided to be my friend. Yea! The bad news is I am still stuck eating snack packs and apple sauce for dinner. But if my baby tooth ever falls out, I now have a solution!

After the floors were poorly patched on Friday, they were redone today...and they look great! Our kitchen actually is starting to look like a kitchen again. We are due to have the cabinets painted Wednesday and hopefully we can get granite sometime next week. I might actually be able to use the kitchen in less than a month!

Eddie also installed gutters and a French drain while I was out of commission this weekend. Although the gutters are hung, there are no downspouts yet. The gutters have not been tested yet, hopefully they will work great.

Look at those gutters!