New House Update

Well, I suppose any progress is good progress. After looking really close at the new brick, we think that they will match after all. The problem was that the first batch had more paint and mortar covering the true color of the brick, so they look different. When the floors are done, they are going to wash them with muratic acid to take all the paint off the bricks. They SHOULD match after that. Keep your fingers crossed. Here are a few pictures of where we are.
The half-bricked floor: (It's grey from all the mortar, that will be washed off.)

The stucco base coats are done. They are supposed to start on the color coat today or tomorrow! The columns will also come in the next few days. It will completely change the look of the house.

This is my favorite part of the whole house, but has been the biggest pain in the but. The interior doors downstairs are reclaimed. Meaning that they were taken out of old houses and buildings. They are a little beat up and they have horizontal panels. They are absolutely gorgeous. The problem with them is that they are all different sizes. You have to make sure your door jam matches exactly and everyone of them has a different dimension. Guess who has been the go-between with measurements and such? Me, the little blond girl who doesn't care a thing about how big the doors are. Oh, well, they are hung and they are just as gorgeous as I imagined, so I guess it was all worth it. This is looking from my bedroom to my bathroom:

This one is in my bedroom also, going to the hall.

After this weekend, hopefully we will be much farther along. After we get the floors bricked, we can bring cabinets in and raise the big beams that are going in the keeping room.

Of course, this all depends on the workers actually showing up!