Pours. Floors. Doors. Drawers. (Say it aloud, very fun.)

If you were standing on our street at around 5:15 pm yesterday, you would have heard my voice through the front door yelling, "that's so COOL!" over and over.  Throughout the last week there has been ridiculous progress on many fronts.

Pours.
We have been accessing the house by traversing a board (see previous post re: goat bridge.)  We now have two very large concrete stoops, the front being a fairly significant specimen.  If it were ever to crack, I worry that my husband may never be able to focus on anything else (cracks do seem to bother him.)

Yup, solid.  I love this style of inset step, fits great with the prairie style.  As a friend said today, easy to image flower pots on both sides.

The back steps, looks like the top is small, but when you're up there it's just fine.

Floors.

With the 2nd floor all sanded and polyurethaned, the main floor was next.  The wood has been installed in every part but the stair treads.

As expected, there are some great boards of birch with fun character in visible areas.  I am looking forward to seeing some really pop with the finishing - zebra stripes?  Swirls?  Who knows?!

The wood transitions are in place.  The one that leads to the front door will butt up against tile.  The back will butt up to what we think will be VCT Tiles (more to come on that in a future post.)

Doors.
Interior doors and trim are popping up all over!  Today we even got to see our first pocket door hung - the first of many.  With a smaller house, door swing kind of cramps your style.

The 3-panel look that will be EVERYWHERE.  I hope it doesn't get old.

And when I say "everywhere", I mean - EVERYWHERE.  Here are kid #2's closet doors, same style.

Doors also apply to cabinet doors - we found our kitchen actually located in our den.  The stained cherry finish looks great!

This was a late change.  The master bath cabinet was changed from the stained cherry, to an ebony stained alder cabinet.  Alder because it takes stain well and is cheaper.  Ebony because the entire bath will be black and white.  I love it.

Drawers.
This is the best thing yet.  The kids' bath will have a 36" vanity.  With 2 kids' stuff to hide, we thought drawers would make the most sense.  Our cabinet maker said that 36" cabs look too busy with drawers and suggested this little innovation (it's probably been around forever, but new to us.)  A seemingly single drawer from the front opens to a double - no TRIPLE - drawer!  This will prevent many fights between children about their stuff touching.

Still room for plumbing in the middle.  Brilliant.