YES! WE ARE IN!

However some things are still not done......

Since my body has given me one nasty cold, and I feel like a truck has run over me, I have time to update the blog. We finally moved in the last weekend in March! NOW, just because we have moved in does not by any stretch of the imagination mean that the house is done. What it means is, that we have one working toilet, fully working kitchen and hot water all through the house! I'll give a quick overview of what was going on in those last couple weeks.

 First I had to put on all the electrical outlet covers. Using this tiny little LEVEL. That took me  a while.

Then of course because the painting is never done, I had to put 3 coats of paint on the base boards. Then they went in.

Now some exciting stuff. Then kitchen cabinets and counters. Here is Curt's drawing of the kitchen cabinets.

Ours our being made by some guy named Erik, not big foot Erick, a different one. Big Foot Erik just had a little girl, well Kati did, but that is a whole other story. So anyway, Cabinet Erik is doing a great job, it just seems to take for FREAKING ever. But they look wonderful.

Then after Erik gets the cabinets in the stone guys come. We used Creative Stoneworks. They are always really nice to work with. First we went down to Meta in Seattle and picked out our stone. We choose a quartzite from India. Looks like this. I think it's nice because it has the grey of the floor, some white and then tan of the cabinets.

Then you go to the stone shop and figure out where you want the counters to be cut out of the stone. I'm not that picky. I like all the stone....

But Curt is.

Then they bring it to your house and install it. It's pretty cool to watch.

At the same time they did the master bath. We were lucky enough to have this piece leftover from one of Curt's jobs, and it fits in both of our bathrooms. And I love it.

So the master bath is almost done. It has teak cabinets. but until the whole thing is done, no more pictures. It's just kinda messy now.

We also had to spend some time grinding down the hearth. We had the wrong finish on it. This is Curt's lovely home made apron.

I helped with the Duct Tape!

However it looks great now.

Curt hooked up my washer and dryer yesterday. I've been doing 3 weeks worth of laundry ever since. 

I was somewhat worried he would get stuck in there.

But I do love the laundry room. Mainly because it's attached to the closet!!!

Not far to walk to put the clothes away! YAY!

Master bath is not quite finished yet, we can take a shower and all but I'll take pictures when it's done. Same with the guest bath. It needs some work, I'll let you all know when we can have guests.

Also the guest rooms is a bit crammed with boxes at the moment....

There is still an entertainment center that gets put into the living room, it will divide it from the dinning room a little bit. I'll post pictures of that when it's done. Also the mantel on the fire place and the pantry is not done. But it's looking like a home. 

Also, that dinning room light! It came like this.

I had to unwrap all those little buggers.

But I like it.

So that's it for now. I'll update as more things get done. I think the patio gets started this week too. But as far as a rush, no more. We can take our time. I know your all thinking, hey you already took forever. And that is true, but we have done a ton of the work ourselves and made it affordable for us. So stay tuned to the rest of the project....

Wood Trim and Various Matters

Wood Trim and Various Matters

So, very exciting news! We have a move in date. (pretty much) The weekend of March 15th! In the meantime we have a TON of work to get done. 

I don't know if you all remember that large pile of reclaimed beams that we had, well they have been put to use. They are the inside trim of our house. It took quite a while however to get it all ready to go.

 Curt we very excited to get to use some sort of machinery to move the pile onto a large rental truck.
I think he played with it a bit to much.

Then he took it over to a portable mill that was down the road a bit.

Then the miller and Curt went to town cutting them all up into boards that we could use. This is really old wood from a building that burned down several years ago that Curt was able to scavenge part of the sub-floor from. So the beams were about 100 years old or more. Clear virgin fir. It makes for some really pretty trim that we could otherwise not have afforded to put into the house.

By the time they were done, we ended up with a small truckload of wood! But then it had to be planed and sanded and finished....UGH.

Curt ended up spending 3-4 weekends just sanding and cutting wood. It took FOREVER!

My job was fairly easy, I just had to put about 3 - 4 coats of finish on all of it. You can see how it makes it look very nice though.

We had a couple pieces where the knots had fallen out, but Curt found some filler wood for it. :)

 And then Caleb, spend a couple weeks putting it all up. All over the windows and the soffit.

It really does look very nice and makes it look like it's finished inside finally.

You can also see that the cabinets have started to go in. They are not quite done yet, but I'll have a post soon with the finishes of that.

Curt also had to spend a few days grinding the hearth of the fire place. We had the mason but the wrong finish on it.

I do however, really like the improvised apron Curt came up with to keep from getting soaked!

Both of the showers are now tiled!

Master Bath -

And the guest bath. Which is really hard to get a picture of since there aren't any lights in there yet. I'll get a better one later.

So, as you can see, it really is moving fast now! And since we do actually have a deadline now, we will be in next month!!
YAY!