Author: Ian C.

It’s been a huge week for our new home at Independence! A week ago we had plastered sheetrock; now we have painted walls, tiled floors and bathrooms, and cabinets installed in the kitchen and bathrooms! We even have a partial driveway outside.

Kitchen cabinets look good; they will look better still in a couple weeks when the countertops are added …

Elsewhere, tiling downstairs is almost complete and tiling is progressing well in the bathrooms too:

 

It’s starting to look like a home now!

There’s a new burst of progress at Independence this week, with a first coat of interior paint following the sheetrock, and now the downstairs tiling is being laid …

The interior paint is quite plain, and less yellow than it looks in the camera!

 

Meanwhile outside, crew prepare for the driveway, cutting away the kerbing and laying concrete frames for the driveway ramp and walkway across our property:

We’d expected to see kitchen cabinets being installed today too, but not yet …

Following last weeks sheetrock installation, plasterers were at Independence this week, working around the holidays – and now I think the house is ready for painting. Unexpectedly, the skim coat is not so much a “coat” as a “splatter”! So the camera pictures look like there’s no coating at all, but in close-up, you can see the splatter finish on the ceilings and walls:

 

If a good paint job follows, then I think the walls will look fine. We checked out another Brandywine nearby, started much later than ours but now further ahead, and the painted walls looked ok (though the standard-throughout-the-world-Magnolia finish is hardly thrilling!). That house also has most of the electrical fixtures, so we’ve got a preview of them too …