House Progress

Ok, it's been a while since I've given a virtual tour of what's happening at the house so this is a long post...here we go! 

There were (and still are) stacks and stacks of trim. Window and door trim, baseboards, skirting for the stairs, shelves for closets and on and on. 

 Ben spent hours and hours painting. I spent several hours, but it takes a team to paint and care for a family and I think we managed it pretty well.

 At this point, I think the flame to paint has burnt out and now Jeremy's crew has taken over. They've been busy installing trim and finishing out closets.

 Here are the stacks of painted trim that are waiting to be put to use inside the house.

 The wood flooring is going in. The crew showed up on Thursday and loaded lots and lots of lumber into the house. Then they started installing the kitchen so our cabinets could be installed over the weekend. Interesting side note: the young man installing flooring also worked on the concrete crew that poured the foundation for our house. He says he likes installing flooring better. :-)

 Levi will hopefully learn that the new house is not actually a jungle gym...but I'm sure that will take a while.

 By the end of Friday, the crew had laid flooring in the kitchen, dining room, sun room and started into the living room.

 On Saturday, Rod and Nate installed our kitchen! Obviously, the counters are topless, and there are bits of cabinetry that couldn't be completed because of other electrical, gas or H/VAC work that needs to be finished.

 But seriously! We love it and can't wait to start putting it to good use.

 The island is just right. It's missing a leg on the near corner (it'll go in once the floor is finished) and the open shelf at the far end is for our microwave.

 Ben "hung" one of the lights above the island so we could get a feel for how it'll all come together.

 Paul has been busy making our bathrooms look nice with 3/4" black and white hex tiles. He's finished with one bath and has two more to go.

 I said there are stacks of lumber all over the house and I wasn't kidding.

 Our front door is still missing its doorknob.

 And upstairs, the boys' rooms are the farthest along. Trim is up, closet shelves installed. They're just waiting for carpet, nail holes to be filled, sanded and a final coat of trim paint.

The train keeps moving down the tracks and we expect that in about a month it'll pull into the station. My mind already switches into "we have to move all our belongings!" mode, but then I remember that I haven't even picked out hardware for the kitchen or bathrooms, or towel bars, etc.