More Electrical Work

We didn't get pictures of everything today, but Kyle solved a few wiring issues, finished up the fans in the bathrooms, and most of the rest of the lights.  I put faceplates on.  I've done all the ones that are low enough for me to reach so there's just a few high ones in the house, and the ones in the garage that aren't done yet.  Kyle also wired the back porch lights, the fan on the back porch, and about half of the lights inside the garage.  He also did the front porch and garage door lights (which I did get pictures of).

New lights at the garage doors.

Front door.

Close up of the front door lights.  The garage lights are the same, but bigger.

That's me on the porch.  

Another Electrical Post

I forgot to post this picture of the reading lights in the master bedroom in the last post.

The little fan up in the cooling chimney.

Family room fan.  I don't like the glass shades on this one, so I will probably swap them out at some point.

Kyle put these lights in tonight.  Right now they're on a switch, but eventually there will be a sensor so when someone walks by they'll turn on.  

The lights are all installed in the basement.  I need to finish putting covers on a few plugs and switches, but it's almost done.  We also need to have the drywall guys come back to repair some drywall that had to be cut out to fix a few problems, but everything is working and powered now.  Being able to turn on lights to work is a luxury.

Upstairs there are just a few places we're holding off on lights because we want to make sure we have them centered over the cabinets.  

Last week Kyle's brother C came over and helped him lay the tile in the kid's bathroom.  It went really fast, and looks great.  

Tonight I took the kids to the school for a movie night.  When I got home and got the kids to bed, I went out to see how Kyle was doing.  He had gotten quite a few lights up, including the wall reading lamps in our bedroom.  They were Ikea lights meant to be plugged into an outlet.  Kyle rerouted the wire so they could be hardwired.  

These are the chandeliers that I spray painted (they used to be black and now they're bronze).  I assembled them and they will hopefully go up tomorrow night.  While he was wiring lights, I went around and put covers on light switches and plugs.

CP's Room

CP "babysat" while E took a nap and I finished the last coat of gray and pulled the tape off.  Yea for the end of the wall painting...

Almost the last of the wall painting...

Kyle finished the second coat of green paint in the laundry room today, so the walls are done upstairs. Except for our bedroom, but I think we're going to wait until next year when maybe painting sounds like fun again.  White will do for awhile.

When I came in to help, he was just finishing that up so I got started downstairs with the gray in CP's room.  It wasn't intentional, but his room looks like a University of Utah themed room, it will look even more that way when we pull the tape off and there are white stripes on both sides of the red.  Hopefully he can covert- I think he might still be a BYU fan.

Then we headed to A's room to put the last coat on the black and yellow.  When we were done we pulled the tape off...  (These are Miami Heat colors)

Then we headed to J's room to finish the final coat of all three colors in his room.  Jazz themed.  I hope they appreciate how much work that was.  They turned out pretty cool though.

Now we *just* have to paint the ceiling in the laundry room, the second coat of gray in CP's room, all the trim, the doors, and touch up the ceiling in all the places where we oops-ed.  Then we'll be ready for carpet.  :)

I didn't get a picture, but yesterday the siding guys came back and installed the rain gutters.  It's chugging along.

Red Stripes in Boys' Rooms

I took E out with me this morning, he rode his plasma car and played on my phone while I got the first coat of red paint up for the stripes in CP's room and A's room.

A's room.  He wanted a "Miami Heat" room, so the stripes just above and below the red will be black, and the bottom will be yellow.

CP wanted a "blood red and black" room, so we compromised with a red stripe.  Above and below the stripe will be gray.

Things were really going pretty well with E staying out of the paint and not touching the walls, until I told him we were finished.  I went to get a bucket and he decided to paint a little more.  This is after I wiped as much paint off as I could.  Luckily these parts still have to be painted.

Paint and Electrical Progress

Half of the great room upstairs and E's room is "Napery".  We got the first coat on.  The second coat will hopefully go up on monday.

 I don't think Kyle was super excited about my idea to paint one wall up in the cooling chimney, but he went along with it.  He's a good sport (and a good climber).

We taped off the stripes in the boys' rooms downstairs. 

We put the second coat of gray on last night.  

 Kyle and I both did a little wiring.  This is one of the plugs I did. 

Kyle got some lights up in the storage room. It's amazing to have lights that turn on with a light switch. Now just picture this room full of food storage and a freezer.