Peter was actually home for three days

It was brief, but he got a lot done. We are concentrate on the finishes in the Master Bedroom.

We did the modeling. We were able to use the original modeling that we removed from other parts of the house and put them around the windows and doors in the Master Bedroom.

Peter also did all the caulking in the hallway bathroom because the person we had do the tile did horrible job.

But the biggest thing he got done was the drywall in the sunroom. The sunroom is starting to look like an actual room and is going to be the nicest room in the house.

We also got the light hung in the dinning room and the dinning room table set up. This was Peter's Grandmothers table that we had refinished. It looks great!!

Work continues

We are down to the little stuff. The big stuff is completed. Including the kitchen . . .

The master bathroom . . .

And the guest bath . . .

We have beautiful french doors in the Master bedroom and got window installed in the upstairs porch.

We just have the "little" stuff to do that Peter can do with a little help from me. The little stuff may take us the better part of 5 years, so maybe it isn't so little . . .

The little stuff includes installing the subfloor on the upstairs porch (no the sunroom) . . .

We Moved In!!!

Well don't get too excited . . . we move all our stuff into the basement Friday March 29.

And proceeded to sleep in a hotel while they finished the floors.

We went with the natural stain color on the old floor and nutmeg on the new oak floors. I am not happy with the stain choose on the new floors, but I was being to in decisive, so just went with what Peter and our freind Justin thought would look the best. No offense to Peter and Justin. The old floors came out a lot more orange then I expected, so the two stain colors don't really match.

As long as you don't look at them like the above photo shows and just stare at the break between the two floors they look good.

The back of the stairs will be painted black or white. 

They finished the floors the night we moved our stuff in the basement, but the floors took two days to dry and than  the plumber and electrician took a couple of days to finish things up before inspection.

Wednesday April 3 was our first night at the house. Although our stuff is still mostly in boxes in the basement and we are confined to one room while we finish painting the master bedroom and bathroom.

Oh and the cats get the other room that doesn't need to be painted right away.

They also delivered the reclaimed wood counter top on Wednesday. This is perhaps my favorite part of the house so far. That and the pendant lights that go with them. I took my time deciding on the stain color for the counter top.

My other favorite part of the the kitchen is the big pantry cabinet with draws that pull out.

This weekend we (my coworkers Nick, Brenley and I) painted. Needless to say Peter is pissed he had to leave town, although I can't say he is pissed that he doesn't get to paint . . . there are other things he would rather do like carpentry.

Sorry, this picture is sideways . . . but I only had to buy 10 samples to decided on the color for the master bedroom. We went with a nice tan. Kind of boring I know, but the master bedroom and bathroom are the same color and it looked best in both rooms.

I will post some good before and after pictures next.

Floors

Today they were working on the floors. The big decision is what color to stain them or to stain them at all. They are fur and the flooring guy says that fur doesn't really take stain very well, so it will blotchy. It is also not likely to the new hardwood that we added in the kitchen which is oak. Oh well so much for matching the flooring.

Here are the chooses in stain color. The flooring on the right is the new flooring . The one on the left is the old stuff. Each color was tested on both types of flooring. You can see the stains don't match very well. I am leaning toward the one on the bottom. Which is basically not staining it at all and just leaving it light.

Here are the floors with one coarse sanding. The will be sanded a couple more times. The light looks ok, right?

I took so more pictures of the rest of the house. It is a little messy, but I will take more when it get's cleaned up.

Master bathroom shower

Master bathroom tolite.

Master bathroom vanity

New door in the Master bedroom. This is just a construction door. We will be installing glass french doors.

Master bedroom looking into the bathroom.

New kitchen counter tops

New hood. 

And we have light!