It’s been a few weeks (at least) since I’ve gotten a post out here, I feel like we’ve turned a bit of a corner in this phase of the project. Suddenly we’ve switched from the “under the covers” type of work to the work that everyone is actually going to see when they come in, which is really exciting.

We’ve got drywall up, taping & mudding completed, and Aunt Shirley even started painting this week (sorry, I haven’t grabbed any pictures in the last week or so). The (reclaimed) hardwood floors are going to start going down this coming week, the tile in the bathrooms is lined up to go down now that the in-floor heat is put in place, and even the water lines for the hot water radiators are mostly run.

Unfortunately I didn’t grab any pictures of the beautiful grass coming up this past week and a half, I’ll get one on the next post, but here’s a picture of some flat dirt. (Oh, with grass seed and straw mats put down 🙂 )

I also mentioned that the hardwood floors are going down this coming week, so we had to get all of that wood back up there so it could acclimate to the environment before it got put down. We had quite a crew helping us get it all hauled upstairs yesterday! It was an interesting approach, but we got it all up there. Now we just have to spend the weekend cleaning it up getting it ready for installation.

We should be seeing some major changes in the next couple of weeks, painting, flooring, trim, & appliances should be happening.