Just about done!!

We are very close to having our house back!  The kitchen is 95% done, and it looks great.  It feels like we are in a different house.  I made the first meal with the new stove last night.  After 2 1/2 weeks of not having a stove, this was very exciting.  Spaghetti and sausage! 

 The countertop looks nice with the flooring.  And now we have so much counter and cabinet space!  I'm going to forget where things are.  I can't reach the top shelves of the cabinets, so they will have to be saved for something we don't use often. 

 We are waiting on the backsplash that is on backorder and should be in soon, then the window will be framed out as well, and everything will be complete.  The is our new copper sink.  We love it, and I hope that it stays pretty, and I don't regret the choice. 

The stairs and flooring is complete.  WE love how the stairs turned out.  They originally had ugly carpet on them, and this is just the plain boards underneath that were stained and painted.  Nice job!

 The wooden floor is nice and cool apparently, Samurai enjoys laying on it for naps. 

So very soon, we no longer have Rudy, the contractor at our house each day.  We will be rid of the porti-potti in front yard, and the contractor sign! 

We are planning an open house soon to show off our completed house, so stay turned for details!

Kitchen and flooring

 All the cabinets are in...  we are waiting for the counter top to be cut and delivered.  The trim is going up and other small things.  The cabinets are so tall, it's hard to reach some of the shelves.  We have started to move a few things back in.  Without being able to fully use the kitchen, its hard to know where I want everything to go.  We may end up rearranging anyways.  But the sooner I don't have to run up and down the stairs to get stuff from the basement then better!

The one new appliance that we have is our new microwave. 

the new flooring is in!  Its prefinished hardwood.  Bamboo.  It looks great and is a tad darker than it shows in this picture.   

We had to keep the cardboard down over the weekend to protect the new floor.  The boys enjoyed it.  It was like one big canvas!  Its not often they get the chance to write on the floor!  I am hoping though that it will all be gone soon, and we get the living room back into shape.  It would be great if the stove gets installed too.  I can make due with the toaster oven and microwave, but with out the stove top to  make pasta and boil water etc, its getting to be challenging!  Its been about 6 weeks, I am ready to have my house back! 

Just a quick post.... The cabinets are going in and they look great.  We are very happy with them so far. 

This is our old fridge, the new one gets delivered today, but probably won't go in until the flooring is installed.    We are going to have so much storage space, we won't know what to do with it all!  It'll be a big change from our old kitchen.  It already is starting to look like a different house!

I am glad we will be away for a few days since we are now without a stove or a kitchen sink.  I can function without the stove since we have the grill and a large toaster oven and microwave (which are located in the garage), but washing dishes in the bathroom is inconvienent and sort of gross somehow.  Hopefully, though I don't know the exact plan the flooring will be going in the next few days so that when we get home on Monday evening, the appliances will be in too!  But I have a feeling that won't be quite what happens, especially since I don't see boxes of flooring in the garage yet! 

Bathroom is done, and painting has started.

 YEA!!  The bathroom is done!  We really like it.  And it is nice to have the room finished.  I love the counter top and Len's favorite is the faucets.  I think the boys love the "magic" closing drawers and the silent closing toilet seat, because it closes slowly.

There is so much more storage with the medicine cabinets.  We were thinking the walls which are grey would look strange with the floors, but all of it really pulls together.

Really, it looks great.

 Downstairs, and on the stairs, the destruction and construction continues.  The carpet has been removed all over.  I am glad I missed out on tearing out the carpet!  That would have been a pretty dirty job!  We are not sorry to see it go. The stairs are pretty noisy now though.  Especially for the dogs.

 All the way around downstairs we are walking on the plywood.

 The kitchen is now painted.  We aren't sure why they painted all the walls since only a very small part of it of it is actually going to be showing.  Seems like a waste of money and paint.   But the color is good.

So we are hoping that this week will be cabinets, the rest of the rooms getting painting and maybe the flooring started.  We'll see, what happens.  

Its been a slow process.   

Another week, some more progress...

 Lots going on this week at the house.  The kitchen's electrical was run and all the junction boxes and all that stuff are in. The recessed lights are installed in the kitchen.  This was terribly exciting to see, but  once they got the dry wall up, the kitchen was much much better.  It feels so much cleaner in the kitchen now with out all the exposed walls and insulation!  We still have plywood flooring, but I think that is suppose to change this week. I can't wait to see the new floor!
Walls,  then flooring, then cabinets!  We are getting closer!

 The Back 1/2  wall is where the new stove is going to be.  The electric line hanging down is for the new exhaust hood.

Len is cooking dinner!  

Our bathroom is very, very close to being done!  So far I love it! The counter top is so nice and so easy to clean.    We had a small issue with them not recessing the medicine cabinets, but the contractor went back and fixed them.  If they aren't recessed, the lights above them look ridiculous!    My only other issue is the color of the outlets and switches.  I want them  white, and they are the same color as our old bathroom, but we'll fix them later.  If we asked them to change them all now, the electrician would have to come back and that would cost us a lot more!  The only things left to do are to touch up the paint, and put up the hardware, such as the towel bars and toilet paper holder.  And then... that room will be finished!  

Kitchen progress...

This Week has shown progress in the kitchen.  They took out both old windows....  It went from this...

to this...   Framed out the spot for the new window....

 The next day, our new window was in.  This one is centered on the wall and will be over the new sink.

I believe that early this week we'll loss our sink and they will start working on the floor.  Our dining room and living room are just about empty, except for the biggest pieces of furniture, which they will move from one side to the other.  Those rooms look like we are either moving in or moving out!


Our bathroom is just about done.  The new counter with sinks is in, and the faucets.  Early this week the medicine cabinets and lights will go in and the finishing touches, towel bars etc will be put in and that room will be done.  I have started bringing things  back into the bathroom, so we have some organization upstairs, since the first floor is a mess!  Once the bathroom is finished, I will post pictures!  You'll have to wait to see the final results.  I do LOVE The counter top!

And the walls come tumbling down... as well as the ceiling... and the floor.

 The walls in the kitchen are coming down day by day...  As is the ceiling and the flooring is taken up...
We have the stove, sink and diswasher, and the refrigerator.  Everything else is gone from the kitchen.

 This wasp next was in the ceiling.   Luckily, the wasps are gone or poor Rudy the carpenter, would have had an awful day!  and we won't have been able to come in the house.  The wasps would have been angry!

Our garage is FULL of our old cabinets, as well as boxes full of our new cabinets.  

 Our vanity in the bathroom, with plywood top.  Our real counter top is back ordered and will be delivered in 3 weeks!  They can't put in the mirrors or lights until the sinks are in, so they get them in the right place.