The last three months have been busy. Due to holidays, Airstream trips, work and colds the house projects have sat on hold for two of the last three months. There has been great progress however over the last month. FINALLY the drywall work has been completed. It was a long tedious mess to get through. Installing, taping, sanding, texturing & painting. Now both the drywall and painting in the closets are finished and we have started back on what needs to be done on the front porch. The closets will sit idle for now until we get some work complete on the front porch . . .
We've also spent some time finishing the re-build of the interior of the bay window. The interior bay window had been put on hold from its re-build about three years ago. Knowing we were going to be doing all the drywall work on the new closet additions we wanted to do both these drywall portions at the same time to keep the drywall dust down to a minimum ... one time deal. The base boards still need to be re-done and installed and my drapes can be re-hung soon. It's going to be nice to get this room back.
The last few days have been focused on the front porch. Tim has started installing the ceiling while I have been painting the interior projects, exterior of house & priming all the ceiling pieces to be installed. We decided to go with a 4" tongue and groove pine. And I am going to paint the ceiling with a haint paint. Haint paint is more common in historic southern towns. It's been said it keeps the haints (restless ghosts & bad spirits) from entering your home. The paint represents water and haints don't cross water ya know. But I hear it also can keep the bugs from taking up residence due to thinking the paint color is the sky. Anyone who has spent time in Charleston, Key West, Savannah and New Orleans, to name a few places, you've seen this done on many great historic front porches. If you want more history and beautiful pictures of porches with haint paint check out the following link:
The porch ceiling will really add some character to our home. There is plenty still left to do in order to complete these projects. Stay tuned. We are soooo getting closer. One nail at a time . . .
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