Week I Lost Count

Not sure what day or week it is but here is the latest progress. I had a first yesterday. I fell asleep in my dinner.

Furnace vent thing that Eric is proud of. It really sucks and blows. (eric made me write that).

More furnace pipes that Eric rerouted so my lower ceiling wouldn't be sooo ugly.

Ripped out the lower level hanging ceiling. Looks sooo much better. Those lights will be gone soon. Eric is renting a paint sprayer on Friday to paint the ceiling and pipes white so it will look very airy.

Yellow walls are gone!! Sharon and Simon helped prime and tape this weekend. OK, we need a vote here. Picture molding yah or neh. It currently dies into the newly framed walls rather than wrapping around. This is the ONLY room where this molding occurs. I said get rid of it, Eric wants to keep it.

Looking at the future dining room where there will be a railing.

The countertops are in!! Sort of. The sink is under there somewhere and the surface needs to be applied.

Appliances!!! Eric has been hard at work correcting the counter depth problem in the kitchen and inserting the slide in range. Note the VERY nice open shelving unit that will be above the future refrigerator to the right of the range.

And in other news....we hauled a trailer's worth of lawn debris away and are still working on ripping out the landscaping. It is a jungle.

The Walls are up!

The drywalling is done, temporarily until the windows go in. The door to the garage is being installed today!!

Pretty ceiling. They did a smooth surface in the kitchen and matched the stamped ceiling the living/dining.

Touching his pretty walls.

My favorite wall. We exposed the concrete wall in the stairwell and it has a beautiful raw finish on it. The stairs are a mess so we will probably end up covering them down to the landing. They aren't worth refinishing. The edlge of the floor will have a wood bullnose that will get refinished at the same time as the rest of the floors.

The lights in the stairwell need to be added now so Basant has to go find the drops he provided b/f they drywalled it in.

OHHH. Look how open it feels. That doorway to the kitchen is so much more open now.

Yes, there will be a handrail for code reasons. And I don't want a furry kid flying off the edge.

Very Busy

Well, not much at the house to report. The drywall is going up, the concrete floors are being sanded. The exhaust fan is in for the microhood.

In the meantime, I've been busy setting up my etsy account and wrapping up the identity work for Terrene. Check out the progress thus far. I'm using Etsy until I get Terrene's website up and running.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/terreneproducts

The Latest

This week we had a lot of progress behind the scenes. We got permits and inspected and passed, so we can start closing up the walls. The electrical is almost finished. And the windows got ordered, arriving on Sept. 5th.

Eric is official with a sign. Unfortunately Transom's marketing person ordered the back of the sign upside down (oops, Eric told me i was fired..too bad you can't fire someone who works for kisses). So a new one is on its way.

Eric is doing a lot of kitchen crafting, cutting apart the cabinets and fixing the depth and installing the microhood.
The soffit in the stairwell was finished framing.

The microhood is in! And the heart/apple wallpaper is no more. And I have a small little spice cabinet to the right of it! The countertops are being routed on the edges so we can start covering them soon. The plumber starts on Monday!

Happy Birthday Dad.

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