Month: February 2023

Doors! Tape! Tile Backing!

We took off for a couple of weeks, a lot has happened since then! It may not look like it from the outside, but it sure looks like it from the inside.

First, a heck of a lot of drywall was installed and then the seams taped. If I get ambitious, I am going to count the number of sheets of drywall in that RV garage. Then again, the cost of it all might scare me.

The RV garage, looking towards the 14′ high garage door.
Off to one side of the RV garage is the wall with the solar controller. To the left of the controller will go the rest of the solar system along with the batteries.
This is looking towards the kitchen. The stove hood is wrapped with drywall. You can see the start of the kitchen island.
The fireplace is drywalled and you can see the cedar beams on the ceiling. To the right of the fireplace is a cedar shelf for the TV.
The tile crew was in yesterday and put in the backer board in the guest bath with tub and the master bath shower. They call these indents in the tiles “nichos.” They are for shampoo, etc.

How about some doors! We had a minute of entertainment when the company delivering the doors backed up and put their rear tires into an unfilled trench. Oops. The guys got a skid steer from the job site next door to lift up the back of the truck and get them out of the trench. The trench is now filled in.

Our kitchen cabinets are shaker style. These doors mimic that style.

Let’s not forget the husband’s shop.

Here is the shop on the second floor. Hopefully it is big enough!
This is a view of the shop from the other end. You can see the opening where the attic lift will go to get stuff from the garage up to the shop.
The attic lift is on site now. Yay!

The stucco wrap is finished. They should start troweling on the stucco in the next couple of weeks.

The stucco crew had to put up scaffolding to reach the upper walls of the RV garage.
This is a closeup of the stucco wrap. It is basically tar paper and chicken wire.

We have been meeting our neighbors and have been relying on them to loan us tools we don’t have here yet. We are going to like this neighborhood!