Florida

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 …

Today’s visit to our new home at Independence (in some serious rain) allowed us for the first time to really see the shapes and sizes of rooms, as the sheetrock has now been hung – and loads of sheetrock trash is piled up outside!

 

So next, inside, is a plaster skim coat, and kitchen and bathroom cabinets!