Day 40 March 26

Appliances arrived!! We had to move a few things around but they were delivered in the morning and are nicely stacked by the stairs waiting to be put in their place. After they were delivered I was free to make yet another Home Depot run for more paint samples, and YET AGAIN wrong colors! I swear the third time is going to be a charm! I got two more green samples and they were just too “crayola green”. I like the earthiness of the first green but just a few shades lighter.

I sanded a few patches but there really wasn’t much work left in this process… finally! David came home, and soon after a guy from our small group came over to check out our work. He’s done dry walling and spackling most his life and when he heard about our “little” project, he offered to come over and give us some pointers. It was really encouraging because he thought it looked pretty good, other than the fact that we had been using way too much mud, which led to our large quantity of dust everywhere. He grabbed a trowel and gave us a demonstration on how to do it in a way that will lead to incredibly less sanding. If only we could have seen it a few days earlier. Oh well, we’ve said from the start this whole process is a learning one. Corey left and David and I got to cleaning. We vacuumed and shot vac’d all we could to prep for paint that I am hoping to start tomorrow.