I know it has been a bit since I posted any progress on our renovations, but to be honest it is going rather slowly and the progress made is kind of boring, so that being said here is a recap of what happened last week!

Earlier this week, we had some trees trimmed and removed in preparation for the start of the pool in December. Only one tree was in the direct path of the pool construction, but we thought we'd take the opportunity to clean up a few others that were either in peril or of the invasive type. The guys that worked on the trees were great and the actual guy cutting was nothing short of an artist! Very respectful of our existing landscape!

This is the result of four trees and some unhealthy limbs leaving our canopy.

This is the remainder of the Magnolia that will go down in history as having sacrificed itself for our pool! (Don't feel too bad, it had a fungus!)

Today was spent working on the dressing room. We finished sanding and texturizing the new wall areas and doorway. Dad I hope you know that we talked about you a lot today while we executed our very best "feather-edge"!

Of course, after all the spreading of joint compound and messy sanding, it was time to see the color hit the walls! It took a lot of test batches, namely 7, to finally decide on a color, but we finally did. To top it off, we chose paint that has no VOC's so we will be free of a toxic headache tomorrow!

Stay tuned! I'll try to post as quickly as something happens!