OK, we have most of the house painted, and it is an ongoing ordeal. In the living room, we have Olive 3 by Laura Ashley. It is a pretty color, but I'm afraid it's too dark. I'm contemplating changing it to Olive 2, which is one step lighter.

In the downstairs bathroom, we have French Bistro in Kilz brand. It is much, much brighter on the wall than we expected it to be. The color is not accurate in this picture because the flash is on. It looks much more intense when you're in the room. Once again, I'm thinking about changing it to a lighter color. Whatever we do there will also be in the utility room across the hall.

Finally, we have Amaryllis Yellow, also from Kilz,

in most of the rest of the house (dining room/kitchen, hall and landing, upstairs bedrooms). It's a little "yellower" than I wanted, but it's too big an area to repaint, so I'm trying to embrace it. The color has been the most stressful thing so far.

We had a cedar post fence built around the yard. It's almost finished. Here are some pictures, including one of the garden gate and one of a stile or walk-through at the back corner of the yard. It's a little tight curve made from posts. People can walk through it, but cattle can't.

Here's the porch ceiling, which was covered with boards last week. We plan to paint it.

Here are some pictures of the rock work, along with the siding, and the fireplace that was just started yesterday:

Here are a couple of pics of our doors. The first one is in the dining room. The second one is the kitchen door and is identical to the front door except not as wide. They are Simpson wood doors.

Well, it's been about a month since we updated the blog, and lots of things have happened. All the exterior doors are on, most of the siding is up, a lot of painting is done inside, about half the rock work is done, the fence is almost finished, the fireplace was started today, and lots of other little things. Here's an overall picture of the house today: