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another wall done

I started on the far wall

the guys who did the framing stopped by to see who I was doing and wanted to know if I needed a hand, sure!

so they worked on hanging the rest

and started mudding and taping

which allowed me to start wrapping our Island in pine, I had wired all our surround sound and A/V feeds through the Island

this is going to fun to wire up

I worked late into the night, continuing the pine around the wall

and finished up the last wall the next morning

I picked up some pine to trim out the windows

before I could start that though I had to get some spray foam to seal the windows and door

it quickly got away from me, that stuff expands quick!

so we started painting the pantry

and moved on to taping off the bedrooms

and went with white for one room

we went with sand clay for the other room

the cement walls ended up with a nice adobe look

and knocked out the back walls

we primed the main room

started the first coat of burgundy

and moved onto the second coat

I wanted to get the track lighting mounted so I threw on two quick coats of paint

and mounted the lighting

and knocked out the rest of the bathroom

I mounted the ceiling fans in the bathrooms

and mounted the track lighting in the main room

and above the island

We painted the back walls the same color as the exterior

As I was finishing up the bathroom back wall I noticed the behind behind the track lighting was cracking like alligator skin, and was peeling off. I had a huge section screwed up from not letting my paint dry between coats all the way as I rushing to try and get the lights hung. This totally threw me off, I didn't do anything for 2 days, I was so pissed, frustrated etc. every time I looked at it. It was quite disconcerting. So I went back and scraped the wall, and then did a skim coat of mud

I let it dry overnight and sanded it

and repainted it

and rehung the lighting, all was right with the world again

I had some solid pine doors delivered

and hung them

I was using one of the rooms for my ripping room and I started ripping down left over T&G pine for door trim and build out the jambs

I nailed the jamb extender together

and stood it up and shimmed it out so it was flush with the factory jamb and nailed it down

I trimmed out our closet

and the opening for our storage

meanwhile my wife was staining the doors

I started knocking out the corners in the bedroom with quarter round

My wife started working on the bathroom

Starting nailing the quarter round, this part was a pain

and stained around the upper windows

I knocked out the trim in the pantry and closet