Good Timing

We are so ahead of schedule it's scary!! And until today we were ahead on budget, too. However, today I got a quote for the kitchen cabinets that was literally three times what we have in the budget. Yikes! I think that we may have underbudgeted a bit, but I'm going to shop around and see if I can do better.
But, let's put that little worry out of mind for now and focus on happier thoughts...like drywall! Drywall should start going up on Wednesday. It is scheduled to take two weeks, which is perfect! Since we can't really do much else at the house while the drywall is happening, we're free to enjoy the Christmas season without the pressure of wanting to work at the house every waking moment.

I took a few pictures to hold you over for the next couple of weeks.

Here is the fireplace in it's new place...lower and further into the room, allowing us to put built-in shelving on the left side of it.

Here is the reworked master bathroom. Notice the new window on the left and the walk-in shower (to be) on the right.


Here is our warehouse (aka garage) full of goodies like tile, cabinets & doors that I've been snagging up lately.

This is our construction toilet...Pete rigged up the water heater box since none of the bathrooms have walls!



And here's a little tour of the finishes I've started to buy and collect in our secondary warehouse (sunroom at the rental house):


This pendant light will be in the half bath. It is super awesome, but sadly is too big for the kitchen bar. It will be perfect in the half bath, though!

I found this light on clearance at Home Depot. This will be in the dining room.

This light will be in the foyer. This was probably the most difficult light fixture to choose, but we're quite happy with this one.






Sorry about the flash glare on these next pics... : (

This tile will be in the 2nd bathroom...it's a cream colored limestone.





This is the master bathroom flooring tile...it's a teal(ish) & brown procelain.








And last but not least, we don't technically own this yet but I'm super pumped about it! This is a sample of the flooring that will be on almost the entire main floor...it's a five-inch plank engineered hardwood from Shaw called "Barnwood".