Interior Colors

Paint.
Adding color to the bright white of fresh drywall always makes a huge impression and, therefore, makes me feel both bold and scared. Bold because it will cause drastic change and scared because what if it looks like crap?
Since looking like crap is not an option, I will be asking for help from people who know something about color. So, rest easy knowing that my (lame) eye for color is not the ultimate decision maker.

After narrowing the options down from a three-inch high stack of color samples to just a few deep, warm, autumn tones, here are some color names (I'm having trouble uploading colors from Behr's website, so I think I'll have to take a picture of the color samples and post them that way. I'll do that before I take the most recent pictures off the camera.):

PUMPKIN PATCH
S-H-250
AWNING RED
S-H-180
PINEAPPLE SODA
340B-6
ITALIAN OLIVE
S-H-390

You can go to Behr.com and plug them in to see before I get them posted over here.

Opinions are welcome :).

Springtime - post-flu catch-up post

Just because I've been slacking on the blog doesn't mean work at The 123 is slacking. The drywall is hung and the mudding has started. Also, some of the plumbing that needed rerouted for both the first and second floors has been finished.

Now that the flu has finally loosed its grip, I will update pictures and post some color samples soon.
And even though the temperatures remain wintry, little yellow coltsfoot flowers are popping out of the hillside, so there is hope for spring - soon.

Brick/Block Cutting, again

I do have pictures of drywall progress, but I'm pretty sick of drywall, so I'm changing the subject...

The window that faces Main Street is too small.
Okay, the window isn't really all that small, but you have to be standing up to see out of it (and for me, tip-toes help).

Remember when PC cut the door into the brick wall on the west side? Well, this was very similar, only the brick on this side of the building is just facade and not structural; the cinderblocks on the inside are the structural support.

They used the same saw, only this time they hooked it up to the hose to keep the dust down. You can see the water marks on the brick below the cut in this picture:





Here's a closer view:





And closer still:





And from the inside looking out: