poplar road

With most of the drywall up, the walls look white again. With the new white-on-white striped shower curtain to round out the bathroom reno, the bathroom is as much white as blue... and today I scrubbed, sanded, and primed the bathroom countertop, so now it's VERY white in there. Tomorrow the counter gets a final coat of the kitchen&bath white and that should allow enough time for it to cure before Richard gets home and starts splashing around in the sink.

After a walk through the back gate to see the goats and explore the pine woods behind us, I cleaned up the kitchen counters, removing everything and then scrubbing it all down. Richard's stint with the belt sander on the cupboards had left a lot of dust on the counters, but the worst was the grime on the pressboard "tile". It goes all the way around the counters from left of the sink to where the counter ends at our cube freezer. No camera or I'd have taken a close-up "before" picture, but if you look back at my kitchen posts you'll see the pale blue floral print stuff over the stove etc. This "tile" board is now primed, and will be - you guessed it - white. Now that the priming is all done in there, I can do all the rest of the kitchen&bath final coat at once, cupboard and tile. I'll be much happier when we get the doors painted, to put some colour back in the room.

I took today off work, but tomorrow is a full day, as is Thursday, so I don't expect to finish the final white coat other than in the bathroom. But I'll have time again Friday. Richard will want to jump back into the drywalling when he gets home Friday afternoon, so I am feeling a little pressure to get the painting done so I can help. (I seriously love drywall mud, am looking forward to the mudding part.)

Funny, with all this white paint everywhere, I don't know that I'll be as thrilled to see everything outside turn white, too. I took some photos on the weekend of the remaining crabapples, rose hips, autumn leaves and vines, and it was so nice to find that vibrant colour. Today in the woods I found a few small shoots of holly, but no berries, I guess it's either too soon or they're too small to bear fruit. But lots of pine and the holly leaves to decorate with in a few weeks, to make the white a little less severe. The next painting job, too, will give me some relief - the colour we've chosen for the bedroom is almost as far from white as you can get! Rich, dark, and probably will need three coats like the bathroom. That should be fun - we'll have to sleep in the trailer. Maybe when I get back from Vancouver.

So much to do! I look forward to showing you the latest this weekend. I'm going to have an office! Hurrah!

Wish I had the camera! An addendum to this post, 7am Wednesday morning: we got 2 inches of snow overnight! It's still coming down, very wet now, not the kind of snow I can go out in my sneakers in (must buy winter boots), but it's stuck to every branch and twig, and the back yard looks magical. I didn't know it was snowing until I went to bed last night and turned out all the lights - with no light outside, it's pitch black usually, but last night there was a glow as of moonlight, and when I looked for the moon...Wow! So it's white inside and out now. Cheers!