Working steadily

Work is progressing on the McKinley...just slowly!  

I've had some issues and expenses (life responsibilities...car repairs and such) which have caused a general slow down on the project....

I've thus had to try to come up with some different cheaper options.

I wanted a copper roof for the tower, bay window and porch.   The actual copper thin metal sheets were way out of my current budget.  I decided to try metallic copper paint.   

Not to bad if I do say so myself (maybe someday I'll go back and put the more expensive option on...but for now I'm good!!!

I painted the outside trim....it's a bit more vibrant than I envisioned...but I think the yellow for the siding is going to be more vibrant also...so it 'should' work!!!

The porch is done in the green with white...somehow that picture has come up missing....oops!!

And lucky me I had shingles in my box of leftover goodies!!!!   Enough to shingle the roof!!!!  I painstakingly shingled the roof...so many angles!!!

And then I decided to paint it gray!  My original thought was brown but I wanted the copper roof to pop!!!

I had an idea for a houseplant...but that went belly up just the other night...so back to the drawing board.

Meanwhile I'm testing a plan for some tile flooring!!!!!  Maybe we will have something in line soon.

And in reality...I'm just putting off the inevitable of wiring the McKinley for electricity!!!  Guess I better do that next...at least start it!!!