On Friday, Travis and I drove to Missoula to check out the Montana Stone Gallery which has a ton of granite slabs and a few other stones. We were trying to pick out kitchen countertops and considering the service was really poor, the whole experience was really overwhelming. We think we found a granite that would work really well. It was also nice to get out of dodge for the evening too.
We both have this weekend off, so we had hoped to get a lot of work done, and it never goes as good as we planned. We still made a fair amount of progress though. Travis and his dad worked on the siding around the big picture window. It was really time consuming because they had to frame out the half eliptical type window.
Travis finished framing out the bar earlier this week. Just to get somewhat an idea of the layout of the basement, you can see the theater room in the back of the picture.
Travis also did more framing in the theater room earlier this week. It is basically done except he still has to put a little bit more trim between where the bigger portion of the columns meet the smaller portion.
I was able to get one more wall done in the Jack & Jill bathroom which proved to be a little harder than I imagined (as you can tell by how dirty my tiles ended up getting).
Hopefully Sunday goes as we plan and we get a lot of work done.
After the wire comes a layer of thinset. A put a thin layer down and the crew headed off to lunch and came back to find that the puppies wanted to leave their mark in the thinset too! It was easy to find the culprit...
So here's where I left off with it for today. I will probably do one more layer of thinset to cover up the wires just a little better.
It is amazing how much difference the little bit of siding makes. Here is a picture with no deck, no soffits, no gutters...Looking back makes it feel like we have made so much progress and I like to think it makes us that much more motivated to finish.
Travis finished framing out the bar earlier this week. Just to get somewhat an idea of the layout of the basement, you can see the theater room in the back of the picture.
Travis also did more framing in the theater room earlier this week. It is basically done except he still has to put a little bit more trim between where the bigger portion of the columns meet the smaller portion.
I was able to get one more wall done in the Jack & Jill bathroom which proved to be a little harder than I imagined (as you can tell by how dirty my tiles ended up getting). 
Hopefully Sunday goes as we plan and we get a lot of work done.
As you can see, there is a lot of detail going in to them. There is just a little bit of trim left to do and then we are going to paint it black. It looks awesome in pictures, but it is even better in person. 
This is the guest suite bathroom. We tried a new pattern and also really like how it turned out. There is quite a bit of haze all over the tile, so I will try to post a better picture after I get it cleaned.
Here is the wine room...again with a dirty haze...
