The shower is starting to take shape with the tile.
Yet another thing the plumber f*cked up. Now that the tiling has started we noticed that both the faucet and the handles are off center. Grrrrr.
New molding being put up around the kitchen door (to the dining room).
Now that the molding is up the switch seems awfully close. Unfortunately we’re told it’d be kind of a pain to switch.
We were at the house until after midnight painting the first coat of color in the kitchen.
Ray had been back again to nearly finish the lights. This time he hooked everything to the fuse box, so the installed lights actually work! This was quite a change for us – no more construction flood lights?! It sheds a whole new light (haha) on our house. It made it feel quite different. I had to exclaim “oh my God” every 10 minutes because I was so excited to be in our house with lights on!
Our cool kitchen lights. Our contractor had been worried that the 50 watt lights that we had picked would not be sufficient to light everything up. We had struggled a lot because we felt like the recessed lighting design was just overall lacking and these were the only lights that we actually liked (they have a silver trim). 50 watt bulbs times 10 in the main kitchen and 2 in the Butler’s pantry proved to be plenty of light!
Ray hooked up our dishwasher so the electrical inspection can pass. For us it of course means one step closer to making things feel like home.
Me standing in the bath, getting the dust pan ready to do some cleaning.
Our project for the night (with lights on, yay!) was to clean the fireplace in the middle bedroom. It was covered in dirt and dust and we managed to get it cleaned up a little bit. Unfortunately we found dried drips of what looks like floor refinishing liquid on the beautiful tiles and suspect that they are new. Not quite sure how we can clean that off…
Meanwhile back at the loft we have started packing. Ack, crazy!!
The floor people were originally supposed to come Wednesday, but were unable to due to a flat tire. They were supposed to come Thursday instead but never called or came either. This screwed up a few of our painting plans. Finally on Sunday they returned to do the 2nd coat of polyurethane. This limited our work at the house, but the floors look oh so beautiful!
The brand new coated floors, still wet.
The only place we were able to work on this cold, rainy day without disturbing the floord was the laundry. We sanded down some more of the difficult molding areas of the bathroom door.
I’m starting to fall a little behind again, so I’m going to make a couple of entries.
I got so caught up with the ugliness of what’s behind the range vent hood that I completely forgot to document the actual hood! So here it is.
Ray was back this Saturday to install the lights. He also found that kitchen light that had gone missing during drywalling.
Our beautiful, precious Rejuvenation light. Since it was our little gem we were breathing down Ray’s neck the entire time he was installing out baby, haha.
A fan/light combo we found at Lowe’s that I’m really happy with. We installed the same light in all 3 bedrooms. Also note the old steam pipe that has yet to be removed in the background.
Special concrete sheetrock was installed on the bathroom floor and around the tub.
Our custom shower shelf.
We continued working on the bathroom door until it got dark.
