The Finish Guys: Paint, Tile & Trim

I love a finish guy. I love it when men finish anything - period. That goes for dishes, construction, and especially sex. Just finish already, will you?

Jokes aside, I really do love a "finish guy." Jim, my tile guy, started his tile patterning today and had me over to confirm runs, patterns, heights, etc. Depending on your perspective, or your specialty, or experience with designing and building projects, you might find other parts of a construction job more titillating. But if you're like me, you want to see your vision finally coming to fruition and that means installation of all the finishes: doors, tile, mouldings, fixtures and furniture. These are the detail jobs. These are the clean jobs. These are the jobs that you're not typically looking around the job sight at and internally lamenting to yourself "who the f---- is going to clean up all this SH*T." Finish guys don't leave a trail of debris in their wake every time they make a pass through your home. And I appreciate that.

In the above video I get up close and personal with our texture. It's a very fine, very subtle orange peel. I have to say, as much as our drywall guy bitched and complained through our job, he did a seamless and remarkable job of blending the old and new walls - and the texture will further help hide any pre-existing imperfections in the old walls left over from 70 years of use and abuse.

Next week we'll be back here - the same bat station, same bat channel - only, finally in full color. We've decided to go with a coastal pallet by Sherwin-Williams. The main living spaces, including hallways, will all be treated with Mega Geige, while the three bedrooms will all get the Searching Blue treatment, and both baths, although receiving totally different mosaic tile floors, will be coordinated using the same Commodore blue above the chest-high backsplash (floor to ceiling 12" x 3" flat white subway tiles).

Jim will still be tiling when our door guy comes back to help us install 8 new single-panel craftsman style interior doors and another 365 linear feel of new baseboard throughout.

I don't want to jinx anything by throwing any dates down here for all the world to judge me by, but if all stays on track then we should be refinishing our floors the week of 9/28, and starting to move furniture back in by the first weekend in October. (Jim the tile guy will still be here...finishing).

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