Finally getting to finishing, or at least finishes

I gotta say, one of the reasons I don't like to post here as much as the Garage Journal board (where I'm keeping a similar, more frequently updated thread) is that the layout and control of the photos is just horrible. Yuck. 

Anyway. 

Here's the past week or two compressed. Lots of stuff happening and the captions are easier to do than try to get type to flow between photos. 

We tore out the built in that was added. I'm not about to completely eliminate them so I'm going to try to figure out how to make them seem original. The white between the windows we've figured out was always cedar and so we're trying to replace any instances of dry wall with cedar. 

Here's our evidence. Edging and window trim was gray, beams were faced in cedar. 

Here' I'm facing one of the beams. In places where there is dry wall I'll add a trim board to mimic the windows and frame the cedar. 

This gives you an idea of where that is going. That panel to the left was yellow. The windows trim will all go black instead of gray in keeping with his later houses and traditional style mid-century look. Also, it looks great. 

This trailer brings our current total to four tons of tacky and poor decisions that have been taken to the local dump. 

The other thing we're doing is matching the texture. Never used to like texture but suddenly I really dig it. It's very good at hiding things but let's be honest - we have nothing to hide. It's coming out great. 

The process is to dilute drywall compound, splatter it on the wall in a random way and then let it set up just enough so the small drops harden. Then "knock down" the bumps to give the wall that relief-map-of-islands-look. 

Finished texture but before primer. Paint and primer soften the look a bit. 

The kitchen we replaced every wall and surface so no texture to match there - it all goes smooth. 

This tile is called "jet black" I think but it's dark gray. I agonized about the choice but our architect Ben King suggested we have three tones to create a "chord" of color and suddenly it made sense.

Tile set centered on back and wrapped with the addition of legs 6" past the tub to help prevent water egress.

Went with 1/8 spacing which was as narrow as I felt like I could go without looking trendy. The extra long subway style tile has a classic feel. 

All set and ready for clean up and grout.