The List is Shorter

The goals outlined on Friday where just that, goals. We were unable to achieve all, but new ones were substituted and completed. The rain prevented us from completing the outside painting, but we were able to concentrate on additional interior items to paint. The downstairs paint is at 85%, as the Murphy Room crown still needs to be finished painted and the kitchen and keeping room ceilings must be re-rolled. The girls did perform a great job in painting, by repainting the beadborad paneling on the stairs and upstairs hall and checking all the interior doors. The tile was not installed on the keeping room fireplace, but the tile was installed on the library fireplace.

The grouting of the master bath shower did not get completed, but that is due to running out of grout on Monday. All the walls have been grouted and buffed as well as 60% of the floor. This will be finished the upcoming weekend with a new supply of grout.

We were able to cut out the wood flooring and reposition the hearth for the keeping room fireplace. Also the wood threshold was installed between the kitchen tile floor and the keeping room wood floor and between the foyer marble floor and the keeping room. Also, some trim work was added around the base of the stairs which now tie into the existing baseboard.

We only have a few items remaining (three (3) exterior door thresholds, stairs for one (1) exterior entrance and hard flooring access in attic to service hot water heater) to have Zelda ready to pass a final inspection by Kings Mountain in order to allow us to put her on the market.

On Sunday, Lynn and Brent celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary at Zelda. We hope that next year we will be celebrating in Italy and the Zelda experience will be a pleasant memory.

The top tiles for the library fireplace are installed.

The side tiles have been installed and the mantel placed. Now we need grout.

The grouting of the tile in the master bath shower begins.

Cookie is brought into the shower to inpect the progress of the grout.

The shower floor. Those are 1" square slate tiles.

The sides have been grouted.

Cookie is performing a close inspection of the grouting of the floor.

Jessica is proud of her paint job. We are too!

Jessica painting the beadboard in the stair well.

Jennifer painting a second coat on an interior door. Hey, you missed a spot!

Painting some trim work that will be installed in the stair case. Was it suppose to be white?

Trim work at the bottom of the stairs that Brent tied into the existing base board. Looks like work performed by a pro!

Painting the trimwork on the foyer ceiling around the stairs. Careful on the step ladder.

Painting at Zelda is Fun! I could do this all summer long.

After a full day of inspecting work at Zelda, Cookie is exhausted.