Painting has started

The painted bathroom

It has been a busy first week back!  Regan has managed to completely paint the bathroom (including the ceiling).  Only half of that room gets paint - the other half is tiled.  He also has the laundry and the main dining room wall ready for their final top coat.

He's using a combination of spraying for the primer and rolling for the top coats.  He has purchased a very fetching pair of white painter's overalls.  We had a minor crisis as we wondered whether the chosen shade of white was perhaps a little too cream...  We got over it.

He's been working on site this week with both the builders and the gib stopper, which has been a little different for all concerned.  They all seem to have survived, and Regan got them all a feed of fish & chips at lunchtime on Friday from the local  caf.  It was so much better than the fish & chips shop version!  Beautiful thick pieces of blue cod... I even managed to go all Martha Stewart and delivered muffins to site on Tuesday.

Bedroom 2, lined (alcove for wardrobe)

The builders have been busy installing the MDF wall linings and have made a lot of progress.  Notably, they have completed the wall linings in Bedroom 2.

The builder has been manufacturing the doors at home.  Once they're ready, The Painter has to prime each one before it can be hung.  And hanging them is definitely a two-man job!  They've hung the doors in Bedroom 3 and in the Master Bedroom.  All of our internal doors except for the bathroom and laundry are sliding doors. They are pretty awesome doors - they're HUGE!  I've included Zaha in the door photos to give some sense of the scale.

 In Bedroom 3, the door is basically the same size as the wall.  In the Master Bedroom, our door is 3.2 metres high.  It is also the same size as the small piece of wall that it lies next to.  When you close that door, it feels like you've put in another wall and blocked yourself off from the rest of the house.

Door in Bedroom 3

My sister and her husband came to visit us after getting back from living in North Carolina.  Poor Mike soon found himself painting and helping Regan to cover the floors with a thin layer of cardboard to help protect them.

I was in charge of fetching the cardboard.  It took two trips as I discovered that it only came in rolls that were 75 metres long, and that turns out to be fairly massive in diameter.  That meant that I had to turn around and go all the way home to change cars...

The gib stopper has also been working hard and now everything is covered in a fine layer of white dust.  It also turns out that Frank likes to eat the discarded bits of stopping.  And also the pink batts (which is a little more serious).

Door in Master Bedroom