And the Kitchen

Yes, I like orange!

First, the new entry - door to the outside is to the left and the laundry room to the right.  A built in bench is under the window

A blurry and dark picture of the kitchen.  The walls are a more yellow-y orange, but orange none the less.  (And, no, the wall on the far right is not blue - it is white - the new side door (from above) is just to the right of the edge of the picture)

The light fixture over the island - when the light is on the yellow/orange "marble" things look really cool!

Light fixture over the sink - it is actually more iridescent in real life 

My giant cooktop - I can cook five things at once!

The oven and the microwave and most of the cabinet pulls.

Nearly Done...

Yippee!!  Lots of pictures.

First the floors:

This is the transition between the old pine floors and the new oak floors.

And now the rooms with paint.  I took these with my phone and they came out a bit blurry - better pictures later.

This is the living room - basically, the same color as before.

Front bedroom

Middle bedroom - the color is greener in real life - sort of pale celery color.

Finally, the master bedroom - a nice blue.

Chris put his skills to work and did this:

Our lovely wiring cabinet - every room has internet and coax cable - all controlled from this box.

I spent far too much time removing the paint from and repainting all the door knobs and locksets from the house.  I think they look quite nice.

Master bathroom - and its far too expensive mirrors.

They swivel on the brackets - great for tall or short people.

Now with toilets!

We have toilets!

Laundry sink

Laundry sink and crooked tile

One toilet!

Shower taps

Double row of shelves in the master closet

Second bath with toilet and shower taps

Lots and Lots of Progress!

We have wood floors:

Transition between the hallway and front bedroom.  This is the same flooring but the reddish one was finished and the other one was not.

Front bedroom

Middle Bedroom and hall - again all the same would, just lack of polyurethane

Closet with fancy rift cut wood instead of quarter sawn Rift vs. quarter sawn vs. plane cut

Kitchen floors

Master Bedroom

We also have some tile (as of yesterday):

The top sheet is for the laundry room floor and the bottom for the bathroom floorss

The showers will be the white subway tile with a  beauty stripe of the square tiles

The laundry floor!

Here are some doors and trim:

Bedroom Door

And another bedroom door

Close up of the trim and moulding

Pantry doors and the hot water closet

And finally - Kitchen Cabinets (less one oven cabinet which arrived damaged and is being replaced):

The oven cabinet will be to the left of the wall cabinets above

Island with its open shelf corner - to display my dust collection!

Old Pictures of Our House

Our neighbor grew up in the house next door to ours and gave us the following pictures of our house.

The first picture is when he was just a few days home from the hospital - that is our house in the background.

The second was when he was about 10 - the building on the right is the back of our house.

We currently have one giant willow oak tree next to the house - there were two until last year when one died.  There used to be at least two more in the back yard.  The last picture shows the front of our house and the remains of one of those backyard trees.  The house looks almost the same now - except for the fake shutters.

Sheet Rock!

We have solid walls and a/c!

Front bedroom and closet with handy (via a tall ladder) storage above (the ceiling is 10 feet  high)

Middle bedroom and closet with same handy storage area

The living room - that pile is the flooring from/for the other rooms

Pantry on the left, hot water closet on the right.  The wire hanging out of the wall is either for the oven or the stove... 

Kitchen window and hood vent (imagine the sink under the window) 

Master bedroom and doorway to the bathroom

Master bedroom entrance on the left and bathroom (the green walls) on the right 

Exciting picture of the laundry room - notice the vent to the outside

Dining room french doors and the transom window above 

New side entrance and porch

The porch again

And again

The floors in the living room and two front bedrooms will look like this - eventually.  The reddish shade is from the aging of the polyurethane - not sure how long it will take to turn this color....

A blurry picture of the back of the house with its new siding (and my monster tomato plants blocking the view)

Last year all the zucchini were killed by squash borers - this year they are giant.  

Monster zucchini - this plant must be at least 5 feet in diameter!

Here it is again - there are two rows of tomatoes and two of peppers behind it!  (and my beans have sprouted - they are in the front of the picture)