Today was much better. Instead of trying to get things online we actually went to local places of business and got alot of things straightened in our head.

The Hardward Store in Gibsonville, will provide our interior walls. We're forgoing sheet rock and using a pale birch plywood, prefinished. It will look very clean and bright. There will be some sort of sheet rock on the ceiling which will need to be painted.

We also stopped at Home Depot to discuss windows and doors. We will have shorter doors (pocket style to save room) and I thought, FINALLY, a savings because the doors are shorter, but alas, we have to pay 5 bucks a door extra because of the odd size.

Our contractor mentioned that since the walls of the inner "L" facing the inner courtyard will be mainly windows, in order to "stiffen" the house, he wants to use plywood on the outer walls under the Hardie board rather than that other exterior sheeting, you know that has "tyvek" or whatever plastered all over it. Thankfully, the cost is comparable. These sort of add ons can be very scary you know.

Our last stop was Sherwin Williams to take advantage of the paint sale, but a huge storm came through and knocked out all the computers so we will have to return to actually make the purchase and get the red paint, our eldest grandson thought would look good on our new house. We have already tried it on our "usonian" sauna and decided he was right!

Rembrandt Ruby Red