Painting, Sanding, Flooring!

With a few weeks left in the semester the colors of Spring bring color to the interior of the New Norris House. This past week much effort was put on sanding, painting and priming of many of the Norris House spaces and components. The Cistern room was primed and painted with it's bright new color of sassy green and is now ready for the installation of cistern and gutter piping.

Many of the homes Anderson doors and window frames have also been primed with will be ready for there a new white coat of paint to be applied sometime this week.

In addition to painting the hardwood floors in the house were completed. The flooring is made of old wood that has been reclaimed from barns and is layed in a radom pattern. The woods unquie knots and holes give the homes floor character. Thanks to Paul with Salvage Antique the installer of the hardwood floors they really turned out great. The floors give the home a warm feeling and really make the white walls of the home stand out.

Casework Update

The casework team has been full steam ahead over the past couple of weeks, but we still have a lot of ground to cover. Every room in the house has some casework component and we have taken on the responsibility of completing the casework ourselves, from design to fabrication to installation. At this point, we have finished the majority of fabrication for the kitchen casework and are waiting for the flooring to be installed before we install our cabinets.

In the meantime, we will be setting up a large painting operation at our warehouse on Henson Rd. We decided to use a low VOC paint product to comply with our environmental goals, but with every decision comes some pros and cons. With this decision, the water based paint dries hard - similar to the quality of a lacquer based paint - but it takes about thirty days to cure. Therefore, our small, 10x10 paint booth was simply inadequate for the large amount of painting that we have to do.

We should receive a new order of plywood from A&M Supply within the next couple of days to continue fabricating the cabinets for the swing space and the bedroom. The challenge for these cabinets has been integrating all of the necessary components within them. Integrated into all of our cabinets are the Mitsubishi mini-split units which provide the heating and air for the whole house. In addition to the HVAC, most of the cabinets include recessed lighting, so all of the MEP disciplines are coordinated into one piece of millwork. Needless to say, we will have our hands full, blitzing towards the finish line.

This picture has nothing to do with my post... but its beautiful.