Fun Stuff

Progress...gotta love it! Not that I'm actually helping much these days. Right now, the technical people are doing their thing and my unskilled self is not needed. Pete's dad is putting in tons of hours reworking the electrical. Pete is busy installing speakers and cable and wires. My dad has finished all the framing that needed to happen before drywall. Plumbing is done, furnace is done.
So, I've been doing fun things like shopping!
Last night we braved the icy roads to pick up flooring samples in Rockford. We have it narrowed down to two options...an engineered hardwood and a solid hardwood. The engineered wood will be easier to install and have more resistance to the expansion and contraction that hardwoods experience, so we're leaning in that direction. Also, it is in the wider plank style that we want. But, there's just that special something about solid hardwood floors. We'll see...
Today, I went to a cabinet dealer to work on a kitchen layout...fun times!! I'll hopefully get the layout back from the designer tomorrow. Turns out that this place also has a cabinet outlet area, and I scored a huge wall cabinet for the laundry room for $50!! I also found a linen cabinet and vanity for the master bathroom, and averted disaster tonight by making sure both would fit. (We only have to move two light switches...not a biggie.)
Tonight, my dad helped me pick up the rest of the interior doors, so now I can get to painting those.
I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of a pendant light that I ordered online. If it's awesome, it will feature prominently in the kitchen design. If it's only somewhat cool, it will go in the half bath. I'm hoping for awesome!
A couple of weeks ago, we pulled the trigger on some flooring tile for the two upstairs bathrooms that we found in the closeout aisle at a tile shop in Holland.
I'm hoping to get pictures of all these goodies up soon!!

We are inches away from being ready for drywall...Pete will be meeting with the drywaller tomorrow, and I'm hoping he'll be able to start next week. Then this place will really start to feel like a house!