fixing-it snow time

I am missing the snow this winter. There are no birds at the feeders, no snow covered hills for sledding, no snowshoeing, and even no ice skating (yet). There is plenty going on around here though. Tilt is super busy sheet-rocking, mudding, tiling, designing, and generally organizing it all. I am busy too, sometimes helping, sometimes working, sometimes designing, and sometimes shopping for various home and building supplies. Between school, daycare, gymnastics and playtime Super-K is  always at hand for "helping" also. This "help" leads to additional clean-up time, or additional fixing-it time, or additional time in general. It is greatly appreciated help, albeit in a completely different way.

The second story rooms all have sheet-rocked walls. The mud process goes on and on, fortunately the end is near. Paint (primer) by the end of the week is the rumor. Many small rooms and closets makes for many corners, corners, and more corners. I gave mudding some corners a shot. They needed some 'fixing-it time'.

The hallway upstairs is one of my favorite new spaces. We went through at least 4 different 'final' plans in our design. In the end the hallway turned out to be extra wide. It was a tough design choice. We had to get four rooms and a staircase out of a 24 x 36 space with half walls. It is so nice to see a drawing on paper work as it was envisioned. Not all of them have (mud-room and stairwell placement -to name a couple).

I am still not sure how the bathroom will feel when its done. We ordered some tile for the tub surround and the floor. Such commitments are hard to make. It's expensive so I hope I will still like looking at it in 20 years. The people at the tile store were generous with their time and patience. I visited 5 times with a preschool aged child ...large orange glass tile in little hands-"...this one is so pretty mommy, here you go."

I put out Christmas tree out by the bird feeders. Maybe is will draw a customer or two before it snows. Maybe they're waiting for the house to be completed.

Unrelated video of the King on Christmas morning (also can be seen as a tour of our studio apartment space).