Saturday, December 6, 2008

Painting Continues

Here's the living room (homestead resort pale olive), the entry way (twilight moon) and the half bath (baked squash). I don't have a good picture of the sun room - well, I have a picture but you can't really see just how bright it is. Consensus is to change it to a mix of white and the living room olive and make it darker. I kinda like the sea grass, but probably will go along with the lighter of the two lighter olives we tried. The sea grass is an island color, and might not go with the rest of the decor.

We got a formal quote for the flooring - $3.64/sq ft for the floor, $3 for installing it, and $3.95 to sand and finish with tongue oil. We have run out of money, so it looks like we will install it ourselves over Christmas break, but will have them finish it. Assuming that the bank will increase our loan amount. Part of the over-run came from missing some major expenses - (stucco for the foundation walls was expensive!), from subs being higher than expected (I still think we paid way to much for framing, and we are still fixing their mistakes. And the electrician finally gave us a bill yesterday - double his verbal estimate), and some is because we are building a bigger/nicer house than we can really afford. On the plus side, we have gotten a couple of grants and still have another $15K coming to offset the elevation costs.