Counters

Counters went in on Saturday. We were originally planning to go with a laminate but decided about  a month ago to go with quartz.
I'm in Texas for the holidays but Jay says they look pretty good.

Cabinets are done

The cabinet install was completed on Monday, They'll need to com back later to fine tune things.
The counters should be going in on Saturday.

In the meantime, the flooring is going down and should be completed today.

Cabinets

We're in to the cabinet stage. Cabinets were delivered on the 12th and installation began on the 13th. The installer needs Monday to complete the first stage. Apparently one of the cabinets was on backorder but it came in on Friday.

On Friday the counter top folks came in to measure up and create a template to cut our quartz counter tops.

 The bathroom was tiled this week.

 The eaves troughs were done on Monday

 Creating the eaves

 We went with a nice clean mantel to match the shaker doors and other trim

 Cabinets take up a lot of room

 Installation is happening. Yeehah!

 Looking good

Saturday Dec 8 Finishing Carpentry Begins

Dennis came in on Thursday to start the tile work in the bathroom. He's about half way through. Our finishing carpenter started on Saturday and all of the doors are hung. I guess he's coming in today to trim them up. The cabinets are being delivered on Wednesday with installation starting on Thursday so he needs to complete up the initial finish work before they arrive with all their tools.

 Coat closet. We went with a 3 panel shaker style door. Love them.

 Closet off the living room area for extra storage.

 Nancy's office pocket doors with inset pin glass.

 Pin glass pocket door on the walk-in closet in the bedroom.

Tile work is about half done in the bathroom. 

Note Nancy's niche which will have a towel hook and a toilet paper roll dispenser.

We're Painting!

We're back on track. Coutney, the painter, came yesterday and started the painting process. He primed the ceilings and got one of the two final coats on most of the ceiling.

Today he finished the first final coat on the ceilings and primed all of the walls. Tomorrow he'll apply the first of two coats on the walls. He'll come back at the very end when everyone else is done to make any repairs and apply the final coat.

Our deck was completed yesterday. My framer did  my deck free of charge.That was a wonderful surprise that I didn't expect  He said it was a gift for being so good to them when they were framing the house. Nancy fed them on several occasions and I guess that was appreciated. Way to go Nancy.

 Day one, painting ceilings

Applying primer to the walls

Has it been that long?

Can't believe it's been 20 days since my last update. I wish I could say that a lot has happened in the interim but it hasn't. Drywall installation has had a few hiccups and it's still not done. The upstairs needs a few touchups and it needs to be sanded.
But on the plus side, the garage doors were installed on schedule and we have heat in the garage.

This coming week should be really busy if we resolve the drywall issue. Primer coat on Tuesday, my finishing carpenter will start doing trim on Thursday or Friday and I'm hoping to have the bathroom wall and floors tiled by next weekend.

 Most of the taping has been done. Nice how much light the skylight lets in. We're actually quite pleased with how light the suite is.

Our completed garage doors. we put in really neat garage door openers, First, they're belt driven, so they're really quiet. Second, they come with an internet gateway device that we connect to the router in the house, that lets me open and close them from anywhere n the world. Yes, there's an app for that.

No more wondering if I forgot to close the doors when I left. 

The exterior is done now except for eaves and gutters and a little bit of work on the deck.