Home Renovation: Days 12 - 15

As I sat on the beach last week, I just kept thinking about the progress going on at home.  When I returned last Saturday night, I was very disappointed to see not much progress.  Apparently, as they started digging up the back yard for the foundation of the addition, they kept hitting rocks... large boulders to be exact.  In fact one rock was wedged underneath the driveway and they just couldn't get it out.  So finally, last Friday, the inspector came by and told them that they could just pour the foundation on top of that rock. Phew.

So Monday they finally poured the foundation, and Tuesday morning it looked like this:

On Wednesday, they started building the foundation layer (and a bunch of junk started piling up in our driveway):

Today (Friday), they finished the foundation perimeter:

It's finally starting to look like something!  Supposedly, the framers will start on Monday... I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

In other news, the painters have been working on prepping the exterior of the house for a new coat of paint.  For the past 5 and a half years, our house has been a light yellow color...  and so is our next door neighbors.  So we're trying something new... a Hamptons style gray.  On Wednesday morning, I went by Porter Paints to try to find the perfect gray.  Who knew there were so many shades of gray (definitely more than 50 - ha. ha.)!  These are the ones I picked out:

But, if any of you have ever painted anything in your life, you know that the color on the swatch doesn't necessary match how it's going to look.  So I picked up 5 samples, and the painters painted some of the siding on the house for me.

It's hard to tell in the above pictures - but two of the shades were definitely too dark and one was too light.  So that left two - Victorian Pewter and Steeple Gray.  After looking and pondering and looking again, we decided to go with Steeple Gray (Porter Paints 555-5).

Here's a closer look of the swatch color:

I can't wait to see the house painted.  It is much needed - and I'm kind of surprised that they're going ahead and painting the existing house, but then again, the weather's so good right now that they probably want to get a lot of it out of the way.

Yay for progress!