Landscaping Started

Started some landscaping cleanup and ended up starting the retaining wall template.

It will look a little ghetto for a while, as I'm using scrap wood to determine where the rock wall will be. In front of it will be a sloped parking pad. Probably just crushed rock, but I might get it asphalted. Allowing the parking pad to slope will help with drainage, as most of the water from the driveway, and a lot of rain water flows through that area.

Initially I thought I'd be digging a lot, but it turns out that I'll be adding a lot of topsoil to backfill. The wall face will be made with 1-man and 1/2-man basalt rock, similar to this style.

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Accent Paint

Here the paint is about 1/2 done, so with one coat it's a little splotchy on the wall, but gives a good feel for the color.

Listening Room Paint

First coat of paint on in the basement listening room. Shows the potential, but it will definitely need a 2nd coat: Electronics room too: Next comes trim and covering the ceiling. A pretty big improvement considering it looked like this when I moved in: And until recently it looked like this:

Ugly Float and Tape

Getting started on the float and tape job on the upstairs half bath. Pretty ugly so far. This is just the first coat, which is really intended to just get the tape down. Looks ugly, but it's actually not bad. Won't know for sure how it will look till the last coat. Plan is to do a texture-free level 5 finish. Not sure if I'll be able to pull it off or not, worst case if it doesn't pan out I can just throw some texture up.

Normandy Park Restoration

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