These photos are to share the beauty of our land south of Cheney, Washington. We are in process of creating a home on the land. Please feel free to ask questions or share your thoughts. These photos are rather large so if you are on a slow feed please be patient.
Here are the recent photos.
This is the NE corner again showing the 3rd coat of drywall mud completed. If you look closely the top coat is slightly yellow over the previous white compound. It took 3 1/2 days, 3days, and 2 days for the 3 coats of drywall tape and mud.
This is the temporary kitchen area and the 12 foot door to the rest of the building..
This is guest bedroom and closet. You can see the structural girts, which we are going to leave exposed as an architectural feature in the finished part of the building. A lot of extra work has resulted from that decision.
Justin is spraying texture on the ceiling of the temporary kitchen. The sprayer shoots globs of thinned wallboard mud in a random spatter pattern. It makes a kind of "PhPhPhPhP" sound. After drying for a few minutes we knock down the lumps into little random flat spaces with wide trowels, and the texture is called "knock down." Like all finishing tasks the preparation is more time consuming than the spraying.
Brad is spraying the north wall in the high bay area from our scissor lift.
After 3 days of applying texture we began spraying paint with our new airless sprayer. That honey really puts out the paint! First a coat of PVA primer over all the wallboard. Here brad paints the high bay area from the scissor lift.
Here Justin has a go with the airless sprayer putting primer in the guest bedroom. We used 5 tubs of primer and ran out by late afternoon. Part of the storage mezzanine ceiling and walls are not primered yet. Another 5 gallons should finish it up. Off to Wal Mart paint dept.
After the primer was finished everything was white. This is the NE corner again, all primered and ready for the color coats.
Here Justin is painting the ceiling from the top of our scissor lift.
We purchased a new airless paint sprayer. It would have taken weeks to paint this with a pan and roller. This sprayer really pumps out the paint.
We wash out and dry empty paint and wallboard compound buckets. Home Depot sells similar buckets for $4 each. Around a home and especially around a construction site you always need a bucket for something. We had quite a few empties.
Here is the NE corner after the color coats were done and masking tape removed from the girts. At some effort we left the girts and angle braces exposed and painted the original industrial red.
This is the NW corner of the room pictured above.
Here's the temporary kitchen. We like the look of the mezzanine overhang. It came out good.
Here is the painted bedroom in the SE corner. Eventually this will be the guest bedroom. Now it's a 1 bedroom house and we'll move in as soon as we can.
For our friends following along, we moved out of our motel and are now living in our RV on the land. It's still a little cold and rainy here, but spring is moving fast and we're expecting to have the bathroom done in a week or two.