Novabrik Done, Still Painting

I'm going to have alot of pictures in this update. The novabrik system is really interesting, so I'm including several shots of the procedure.

Novabrik & Front Door Arrive!!

After almost 3 months of waiting our front door is finally ready. Dave picked up our front door on Monday, June 4th. It's 8 ft tall and 42 inches wide. It's a solid core door with mahogany veneer. We ordered it from Norman Door and Plywood in Norman, OK. They had the best price around for the size of door we needed. Needless to say, we're very pleased with the door. Dave has stained it, now we're in process of varnishing it.

The brick layers have started to brick around the door. Here's Daria showing off her cheerleading shirt. You can see how massive the door is compared to Daria's size.

Deanna's sweeping up the sawdust next to a pile of leftover baseboards. Notice the baseboards, crown molding and the color of the walls.

Here's Dillon drawing on the styrofoam wall in the dust that has accumulated on the wall. You can see the Novabrik is starting to go up, too.

The kids strike a pose on Dave's truck. We're all excited about our Novabrik arriving and our front door!

Going backwards in my photos. This is when our 14 pallets of Novabrik arrived on May 30, 2007. We ended up hiring a truck through OK Steel & Wire , where Dave works, to deliver. It was less money than using one of Novabrik's trucks. We, also, hired a friend of Ronnie Nichols, the Novabrik dealer in Wilson, to use his forklift to unload the truck.

Deanna became fast friends with the truck driver and even got to blow the horn a couple of times.

The west side of the house partially covered with Novabrik.

Interior Trim Work & Painting

Painting, painting, painting that's all we've been doing for the last month. We realized in our construction budget that we had not allotted enough money for a professional painter to do the painting. My dad used to be a painter many years ago, so he has been helping us paint a few times a week. It's taken us the last month just to prime paint the entire house. We rented a sprayer to do all the ceilings one weekend. As of June 2, all of our baseboards and crown moulding have been installed. All we have left is our stairway and entryway to be trimmed out with crown moulding.
The kids have helped us do the priming. They enjoyed helping. Above is a photo of Danae painting in our dining area.

This is a photo of all the boxes holding our kitchen cabinets. Notice the color of our kitchen and dining area now. It's called Bungalow Gold. All our trim work will be painted white. I won't use such a dark color if we ever do this again. We found out the darker the color the more coats of paint you need to get an even look. We're happy with the color , though.

Mike Hammitt returned to our house and built us closet shelves and installed our closet rods. We wanted simple, but an efficient use of closet space. He used MDF for all our shelving. We used oil based white primer on all our closet built ins. As recommended by a professional painter.

It's hard to take a picture of an inside of a closet. This closet is in the shared girls room, Deanna and Daria's . We have double rods since the clothes are smaller right now and you see the shelving to the left. They each have identical closets in their room. This picture doesn't show it, but all baseboards are installed now.

We got an idea from my brother , David, that we should pre-prime all our baseboards before having them installed to save some painting time. Here's Dave using an oil based white primer on all our baseboards. It only took about a half day to prime 800 linear feet of baseboards, not bad. Now , that they are installed we'll have to lay on the floor to do the second coat or use a sprayer. I'm leaning toward the sprayer option.