Day Forty Seven: Once, twice, three coats a lady.

Last night we applied the third coat of joint compound. Hopefully this will be the last coat so we can get painting tomorrow. As E and I discussed, without all this drywalling, we'd be missing out on all this quality time together.

Since most of the walls will be behind cabinets, we were very judicious in our compound application, so hopefully the sanding tonight should go smoothly. Ha! Smoothly! Sanding drywall! Oh I crack myself up.

Anyway, at the top of the post is the south wall of the kitchen. There are going to be wall and base cabinets along most of this wall. Here's the pantry:

The wall on the left of the photo is basically going to have cabinets running from the ceiling to the floor, and almost the entire width of the room (about 6 feet). This will hopefully provide some much-needed storage off the kitchen, as opposed to having to keep stuff in the basement.

And here's another angle of the kitchen:

You can see the stove in the foreground with a lovely sheet draped over it. When one of the inspectors came to the house, E was talking to him and he recommended putting down sheets to help control the drywall dust. While they don't suck the drywall dust up like a sponge, they do keep it from blowing all over the place like it would if it was just on the plastic tarps. So that was a handy tip. We'll have to make some kind of tapestry or flag or something with the sheets when we're done. Or maybe use them in the guest room?

E and Dr. Drey went to Home Depot today and got the paint, so we'll be ready to throw that stuff up on the walls hopefully on Saturday.

Oh, and the back door. Long, long, LONG story... basically our salesperson (the Rickster) has a habitual mis-information habit... so for the last 2 weeks I'd been getting the runaround on where our new door with the right hardware that opens on the right side was. So after speaking to pretty much everyone that works at the window company, it sounds like it will be installed next Wednesday. It had better be.

But I wouldn't bet on it.