More flooring

The downstairs bathroom, and both bathrooms upstairs now have flooring. Slowly but surely, it's starting to come together...

Downstairs bath

Master bath

AWG bath

Kitchen floor!!!

We have a brand spanking new kitchen floor!! You saw what it looked like before, and yesterday....how about now???

Back siding/kitchen floor

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Much better

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...as soon as Wednesday. Big improvement, don't you think?

Hardwood pics

Because I haven't posted any new pics in ages, here are just a few to whet your appetite. We are in the midst of having our hardwood floors re-finished. You can't really tell by these pics, but it is a huge difference. Our old floors hadn't been re-finished in about 10 years and even then they probably just had a new coat of urethane. Now, we have had them sanded down to their original finish and this is after one coat of urethane. There will be a few more before the project is done...but that won't be for a while so as to not scuff things up too much. Here goes...



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Calm before the storm

Here's what's going on in the house right now: sanding the hardwood floors. Not what you'd call exciting, but if you knew the condition of our floors, and saw how it's going, you'd be amazed. At least we are.

Anyway, that goes until Tuesday of next week. Then on Wednesday starts a wave of activity including:

• tearing up the existing floor and installing the tile in the kitchen
  
• cabinet installation in the kitchen and bathrooms
• bathrooms vinyl installation
• soffit in kitchen
• all trim work including stairs banister and hand rails
  
• appliances delivered
• garage door installed

That should be enough to last us a while. Hopefully we'll get some other stuff done as well. We're really getting down to some of the finer things of the project. It won't be too much longer.

What we did over the weekend

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Siding Completed

Well almost complete. Take a look.

We have siding

Most of the siding on the house is up. Pay no mind to the red brick. It is going away soon. Just focus on the upper level.



This weekend, we're finally going to start doing some little things on our own. Little painting, little cleaning up. Might be some other surprises along the way.

New pics!!

For the first time in what seems like ages, we have a few new pics to post. Wednesday is shaping up to be a big day, but here's a little teaser.

Lull in the action

So I know there haven't been any new pics in a while. Well, to be honest, there's not much to show. The siding is currently going on, so that will be cool. But I didn't have a chance to take any pics this weekend. We were out selecting kitchen/bath fixtures and finalizing our flooring. Last Thursday we had meetings with: HUD consultant, trim carpenter, painters, flooring installers, door/closet supplier, and probably others I cannot remember at this point.

This week, I hope to have pics of:

• siding completed
• new garage door
• exterior door hardware
• interior walls primed and ready for paint

Hopefully some other surprises, but since I have no idea what they are (hence the surprise) we'll just have to see how the week goes. Supposed to be nice weather-wise!