More Progress

We're back to work at the house.  Nothing majorly exciting happened yesterday, but lots of little things are being done that are putting us steps closer to moving in.  Here are a few pictures from this past week...

On Monday, we picked out granite for the kitchen countertops.  Here is is against the tile that will be the backsplash.  (Granite is Silver Cloud from Great Lakes Granite & the backsplash is from Lowes)

We hope to have the countertops installed in the next few weeks with the backsplash install to follow.

Speaking of the kitchen, here it is!  We're not actually doing the cabinet work ourselves and the they're not completely finished yet, but we're getting closer!  (White, shaker style Armstrong Cabinets)

 

My dad installed all (except one) the doors on the second floor yesterady!  Yay!!  Doors go a long way in making a house look finished.  Now we have to paint them.  Boo.  Remember back at the beginning when I said I loved everything about my last remodel?  Well, I lied.  I hated painting doors.  And door frames.  And trim.  Guess what?  I still hate it.  Bleck.  Anyway, these doors are three-panel primed doors that we got at Menards for $40-50/each!  Next steps in this department are to trim out the doors, add baseboards to the floor and start on the built-in projects.  After that....?  Flooring!!

 

Detail time!!  We now have cabinet hardware and a toilet paper holder in the master bathroom.  Right now, this room is the closest to completion, but the master shower is not finished yet.  We're getting it ready to tile.  The Hardie Backer is up and mudded.  This week, I hope to apply the waterproofing redguard and then we can get going on tile.

We painted, replaced the light fixture, and set the vanity in the 2nd upstairs bathroom.  I got this vanity and the one in the master bathroom from the Williams Outlet on Richmond.  Nothing fancy, but it does the job.  Also, we laid hardie backer on the floor so it's all ready to tile - my objective this week. 

Thanks, Lisa for painting all this trim (this picture represents maybe a tenth of the trim that will be painted)!!  As previously mentioned, I hate this job!!

People have been asking when we think we'll be able to move in.  Answer...we don't know!  We're still hoping to be in by Pete's birthday at the end of March, but we'll see.  Several of the project timelines are out of our hands, but we are still optimistic that we'll meet our goal!