Another Move...

Lots of the same at the house this week.  Work is happening but I feel like it's going a little slowish.  I'm sure it's just me being impatient.

The basement floor and bar area got their first coat of stain, painting is finished, and the area around the sink is almost completely tiled over.  It looks so much better than the awful pink backsplash.

Basement before picture.

The floor will get another coat of stain and a sealant to make it shiny.  The column will have more molding around the bottom.

Bar and sink area before.

Bar is stained!  In the back corner you can see the sink/tile.

Close up of the tile work.

Upstairs, primer has been painted and chair rail molding has been added.  We also decided to add some additional molding underneath the chair rail.  It was hard to get a picture of that today due to the plastic covering EVERYTHING upstairs.  The plaster workers have started smoothing the swirls out of the ceiling in the den, kitchen and mudroom and have it all covered up.

Smooth ceiling, plastic everywhere, and on the back left cabinet you can see some of the molding.  Also, who knew primer would make such a world of difference to that awful brown paneling?!

Close up of chair rail molding and molding underneath.  It looks so much better than just the plain paneling.

In other news, we moved from the Harrison's house on the westside to the Broome's house in Converse Heights.  Graham and I got up early Saturday morning and took a load of things to Burnett and brought what we had to have for the week to my moms.  The Broomes are off to the beach so we are staying with Nicholas.  Being on the eastside of town makes things so much easier.  I'm much closer to work and we are way closer to the house.  Very convenient.  We are slightly packed in over here, but it is working out well and I'm so glad they are letting us stay! 

We had hoped to be able to move into the basement this coming weekend (we even have cable coming to set up on Friday) but it seems that the stupid floor stain is going to have to have a 7 day no traffic period.  Since they haven't started the last coat and sealer, looks like it'll be a while until that's done.  Luckily, the Bulman's are going out of town next week, so it looks like we'll be living over there for a week and hopefully moving in the basement NEXT weekend.  By the time we actually get to move in down there, the whole house will be done!  Not that I'd complain about that, but still.  I really thought we'd be in the basement by now...

Graham keeps reminding me that I signed up for this.  Whew!