Making my own progress

When we got home on Saturday, I knew there really wouldn't be too much progress. The kids hadn't seen all that Dave and John had done the week before, though, so it was exciting to see their reactions to all the change.

As far as I could tell, all that got done last week was trim on the DR window and the doorway into the kitchen, a coat of Waterlox on the butcherblock counter top, and install of the mudroom door. Not a whole lot. I'm not sure why that is, but I'm guessing it's partly because Dave has other work, and partly because of money. I've paid him 3/4 of what the estimate was (more, really, but I'm sure there will be addtional expenses), so he's probably trying to conserve his time as well as the subs time so that it's most efficient. I can appreciate that. Of course, it's all speculation.

Since there hadn't been a lot of progress (yet, there is still so much to do . . .), I decided to make my own progress and start painting. I primed the whole kitchen and the dining room wall (after fixing holes and dings, etc. Now I remember while we wall papered in there!), and then I started some of the color (I just really had to get some color up to see some change!)

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After: