...4.26...New House Update...now and then...

...this week around the house...

...I've started re-staining the fence around the back yard...this panel took me 45 minutes or so to finish...and I was surprised that we need to do it again...but this 20 year old wood was probably pretty 'thirsty'...it'll probably take me a month to work my way around the back yard one panel at a time...

...and I'm loving this little addition...I've been doing quite a bit of hand watering of all our little 'garden'...and it was difficult to reach over the flower bed and fill the watering can...so the Man just ordered this little extension and it's much handier now...

...back to the bathroom remodel...the Man has started painting the doors and drawers...this is the final colour...Hale Navy (Benjamin Moore)...

...and the cabinets have a coat of primer...

...it's a funky deep teal colour for some reason...that's what they mixed to go under the Hale Navy...and there's actually a coat of white extreme bond primer under that...

...and then the first coat of Hale Navy on the cabinets...

...they're a little bit tedious to paint...a lot of little spaces and corners...so it's pretty slow going...

...quite happy with the first coat...one more to go...this is probably not the best representation of the colour either...it's a deep blue-grey...and is a complimentary colour for the Palest Pistachio on the walls...

...and now back to the past...

...there was a gap in the molding where we changed out the face of the fireplace...too big to leave or caulk...and we didn't want to replace the trim if we could help it...so I patched it...I'll try to sand it to the shape of the molding and then paint it...

...painted the wall up next to the limestone...trying to feather it in...you mix the paint with some water as you move out...the paint on the walls is 20 years old...and we're not planning on repainting this big room anytime soon...so Sherwin Williams mixed some matching paint for us...but of course it's not a 'perfect' match...but feathered in it seems ok...

...painted the white trim under the stairs...

...not sure what that trim piece is called though...

...sanded the patch...

...and primed it...

...and painted the baseboard along the stairs...that might also have a different name...

...just about everything looks better with a fresh coat of paint...

...so I painted the big windowsill on the landing as well...

...and we hung the 8 day clock in the foyer/entryway...

...it was the Man's Dad 40 year gift from the company he worked for all his working life...

...and a few outside things...

...our sprinkler controller died...

...a photo of the wires so we can put them in the correct place on the new controller...

...the new controller in place...

...and the wires all attached...it works!...

...just the screws on the vinyl plastic railing had rusted...so we painted those white...much improved...

...and finally we got a new battery powered edger...I had been using the weedeater runed up on it's side...

...but this is much...much better and easier...I love the nice crisp lines...

~Have a lovely day!