Ready for a blast of red? Here ya go:
And from the back:
It will look even better once the trim is painted; only a little bit of the side of the house has that done:
Apparently the color we chose (Benjamin Moore Cottage Red) doesn't come in five gallon buckets:
The white trim will be in Chantilly Lace.
In other news, our electrical power was hooked up, so everyone is running their tools off of temporary receptacles in the house. The heating guys also came on Saturday and energized the radiant heating system for the first time. For now it's a temporary job, with the whole house controlled from a single thermostat in the living room, intended to just get the house warmed up enough for the drywall guys to be able tape and mud the joints. So far though I wasn't too impressed - we were out there this morning and the house just didn't feel that warm yet - not what I was expecting from a mega-dollar system like this. Paul called them and asked them about it and they said the system was probably in "limp mode" (?), so hopefully it gets sorted out soon. We did get to hear the reverse-cycle chiller actually running for the first time, and it is very quiet - even w/o drywall in the master bathroom\bedroom, it cannot be heard from inside.
The drywall hangers worked through the weekend but the job is still not quite done, at least as of this morning. Lots of progress, but the house is a real mess at the moment:
The septic system is installed and is now waiting for inspection. I suspect this is a pretty standard setup:
See the PVC pipe coming from the house (underneath the bagged electrical outlet on the wall) - that leads into the left-hand tank, where a couple of baffles separate the #1 stuff from the #2 stuff; the #1 stuff then runs into the right hand tank, via the white pipe in the left foreground. So far everything has been powered by gravity all the way from the house. In the right hand tank though, there is a pump which is float-activated; it is responsible for pumping the #1 over to the drain field, via the white pipe running across the top of the left-hand tank. There you are, more than you ever wanted to know about disposal of #1 stuff and #2 stuff. :-)
We have finalized our tile choices (in fact I need to finish this blog entry and send Paul the list) and are nearly done with the interior paint as well. Most of the interior will be basic linen white, but we're going to put some color in the dining room and my office, just for fun. Both of those room will have some crown molding, and the dining room will get a chair rub rail as well. I'd like to put crown molding in several other rooms as well, but money won't allow at the moment. Overall all things are moving good.
Lovely place....we are thinking of using the Cottage Red on our old log cabin, (76 years old,) and going by the paint sample we used, it looks very brown,...hardly any red at all. Did you use a matte or low lustre? Are you satisfied by the quality of the paint, etc.? Thanks, S. Blomgren sblomg7136@aol.com
ReplyDeleteTBH I do not know if it was matte or lustre (I probably couldn't tell the difference). Quality-wise though, the paint appears to be holding up quite well. But it's only been 4 1/2 years so we'll see.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the "brown-ness" of the Cottage Red paint. I think it really depends on what light you see it in. Darker light or shadows, it appears more toward the brown side. Daytime sunlight, you definitely get the red. Would I change it if given the chance again - no.