Hello!

I finally got out to see the house again today (after almost 2 weeks!) and it's really coming along.  Phil has been whipping all the workers into shape, clearly, because they're making progress.

First, the kitchen, from the kitchen sink area into the dining room.  Note the fancy peninsula.  What you can't see, though, is the fabulous tile floor, which is currently covered with brown paper:

Same shot, but it shows the bulk head that hangs down to cover the venting

The reverse, from the dining room into the kitchen (including Yelson the drywaller's stilts):

And our new power room.  It's all much more impressive in person, but we're very excited about it.

And the attic.  The mold treatment turned the wood white and the insulation is in.  I expect they will dry wall it this week.
We've ordered all of our appliances and a handful of fixtures - we'll have to get our noses to the grindstone soon and pick everything else out.

Thanks for checking it out!

A bunch of progress this week - you can see how the kitchen is going to shape up.

First, the view from the dining room into the kitchen.  The framing in the foreground is the peninsula/bar and a the buildout (there will be shelves in there).  The framing in the background is the wall between the mud room and the kitchen.  

And a more direct shot from the dining room into the kitchen.
And the reverse view, from the mud room, through the kitchen and into the dining room

Here's the partially rebuilt bathroom and a totally rebuilt Phil.

The upstairs shared bathroom, by way of the kitchen floor.  Supposedly, we'll have a floor there soon.

And, finally, my new closet.  I'm really most excited about that!

So things are moving along.  We got white subway tile for the master bath, a black granite-ish sink and nice faucet for the kitchen, porcelain tiles for the kitchen, bathroom and mudroom (finally!) and we think we've got the countertops all picked out.  Kitchen cabinets and appliances are ordered (including the red stove).  I feel like things are moving along nicely!

Thanks for checking in.  Hope all is well.

Betsy & Phil

Sorry for the delay, but the last couple weeks have been pretty much pluming and hvac install, and pictures of pipes just aren't that exciting...

So we finally have our rebuilt mudroom.  The wood was in such bad shape, we just ripped it out and started over.  (unfortunately, it appears we will do the same for the powder room.  did anyone ever tell you that these kinds of projects get bigger by the second?  because they do!)

So here's the view of the kitchen into the mudroom, including our fabulous new back door:

And here's a random shot of Grandma (or is it Grandpa?) with Henry Ellis:
Back to the house...

Here's Phil standing where our refrigerator will go.  The powder room door will get closed up and the new entrance will be from the mudroom:

Note the fancy new plywood floor (this might be the same picture as the first one... sorry about that):
Here's the powder room by way of it's new entrance.  Those nice walls you see will be gone soon, but I'm keeping the window:

And an outside shot.  Amazingly, our neighbors haven't said a word.  I think they are just happy that someone will be living there soon:

And a close-up of the outside handy work:

We're still hopeful that we'll get things done soon, but everything just seems to take soooo long!  I heard there's new drywall in the kitchen, now, and that's exciting.  At some point, I'll commit to a kitchen floor and that might improve the speed of things.

I'll take some more pictures at the end of the week - I expect there will be visible improvement by then.  Until then...

b