Go! Go! Go!

Two days since the last update - here's the skinny.

Mudroom
The cabinets are starting to take shape in the mudroom.  Flooring goes in on Monday morning, then all cabinets can be secured in the mudroom.

The white upright cabinet is a broom closet, just general storage.  The cherry cabinet on the left will have a powered charging drawer for phones, electronics, etc.  The top is going to be granite to match the kitchen, kind of a food/drink staging area for entertaining in the back yard.

This one's a little harder to explain.  There won't be lockers, but there will be a bench.  The uppers will be general storage.

Fireplace
It's finally finished off and prepped for paint.  Current plan is that the fireplace bump out will be a dark brown, but no mantle, tile or rock. Someday we might add built ins on either side of the fireplace.

Rails and stair parts
The first permanent stair parts are in place.  If you haven't noticed, we're not big on curves or bevels.

The secret behind the plastic

I wanted to check on the painting progress and found the entire 2nd floor covered in plastic in quarantine-fashion 

No peeking!  

I found a little piece of loose plastic, small enough for a cell phone camera...  the trim has been sprayed!

Basement/Laundry Room
This is as "finished" as the basement is going to get.  We had the laundry room framed and the exterior walls, but that's the end.

Week of Mystery...

This week has been a total mystery for us.  I was busy every night and unable to visit the site - since I was busy, Andy was on kiddo duty.  We stopped by for a short visit on Saturday morning to find a whole bunch of surprises.

First floor wallboard
We entered the house and were welcomed by a pair of legs on stilts.  Our wall boarder was hard at work on the first floor.  The second floor looks good to go, although nothing that a picture can really show.  All smooth and looks ready for paint!

Pretty incredible how easy our wall boarder makes stilt-walking look.   I thought it was impressive, Lucy didn't seem to care.

The view from the dining into the living room.  Look at those functional windows opened at the top!  

The view from the dining room table into the kitchen.  So glad to see the symmetry on center of the lights.  The 3 in the foreground are for the pendants above the island.  The 3 in the background are can lights.  If they were off at all I think my head might explode it would bother me so much.

Fireplace!
Now that it's nearly 80 degrees in March - so amazing - we have the fireplace installed.  It doesn't look like we expected without the frame.  The glass appears more backset than we thought, but we'll reserve freaking out until we go back to the fireplace store and see the unit again with the face frame.

The Heat n' Glo SLR32 - Cosmo.

The underbelly

The basement plumbing is complete, inspected and ready for the cement floor.  Our contractor says that the floor should go in this week.  After a few days of curing, we should be able to move some stuff into the basement from our craigslist and other shopping exploits.

You can see the wet wall on the left that will connect our laundry room  and our future downstairs bathroom.  

A shopping trip to Home Depot and Lowes resulted in a haul of lighting.  Wiped out their inventory, so still need lots more.  Golly, a house takes a lot of lights!