A gorgeous day for a drive

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To use a basketball phrase, it's a "full court press" on the inside of the house preparing for the painters.  The drywall is almost completely ready for priming.  The trim is going up.  And the interior doors are being installed.  The tiler came to check out the master shower and the two guest bathrooms.  She'll be ready to start as soon as the painter is done with the priming.

When I finished at the construction site, I went on to Billings to do more planning of paint colors, find a new option for the flooring (the one we chose has been discontinued), and then stopped by the granite place to see if I could match some of the paints to the counter tops we will have.  Since our slabs of stone were already moved from the warehouse to the production lot outside, I couldn't see much of the stone.  The sales representative asked the guys if they could move some stuff around so that I could see our selections to match some paint colors.  It took a few minutes, but they made it so that I could complete my mission.



Guest bedroom...closet doors ready for mounting.



Sorry.  It's another picture of the mountains.

A little work has been done on the roof in back but the focus has been on the interior while the weather has been a bit...winter-y.

The stone slabs for our counter tops are labeled and stacked in the queue ready for production soon.

They make it look so easy.  There goes one of our slabs!

 


 

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