Week 4

It's hard to believe that the contractor has been steady working for only four weeks!  Lots has been done, but it sure seems much longer than four weeks.

We were really happy with the progress this past week.  The framers have re-worked our kitchen cabinets to fit our new appliances and a new pantry was added where the old double ovens used to be.

This is the kitchen before.  There was a single cooktop and double wall ovens.  Because of the appliances we wanted, we decided to re-work this area a little bit.

Now, we have an area for a slide in range/oven and an over the range microwave.  They turned the area where the double ovens were into a large pantry.  The top shelf will be an open wine rack.  New cabinet doors to come.

The framers also built a new cabinet for the refridgerator.  It has not been installed yet.

This is the new refridgerator cabinet.  It's hard to tell here what it looks like, but they actually ended up cutting it too shallow and are going to have to build another one.  It will look exactly the same.  We may use this for some sort of mudroom bench/shelving area.

The opening from the foyer to the den has also been completed.  The ceiling in the den has also be completely supported and sheet rocked as needed.  It is now flat and does not sag in the middle.  Soon, it will all be smoothed and painted.  No more of the lovely swirls.

The den and foyer feel so much more open with this size of entry way.

It's sort of hard to tell, but you can see the smoothed, sheet rocked areas in the ceiling. 

Lots of work was also done in the basement...our soon-to-be home.  The painters have started, the old pink bar was replaced with a nice wood one, and the support beam (aka "the stripper pole") was cased in with a nice wood column.  Thank goodness!

This is the bar area before.

In this picture, you can see the new bar and the support beam.  The brick has also been painted a light khaki color.  It is really starting to come together!  Once the floors are finished, the new support column will have more molding added to it.

We are still waiting to have the floors in the basement refinished.  It rained Friday night and there was no water!  It is supposed to rain for the next few days.  If we are water free, we will be in the clear for the floors to be stained and finished and the basement will be complete. 

So, this week we are hoping for a completed basement, more work in the kitchen, hard wood floors to be installed throughout the upstairs, and for the outside to be closer to finished.  The painters are still working on shutters, doors and some areas of trim.  We also need to have our storm windows put back.  I'm looking forward to seeing some things completed!

My homework this week is to pick paint colors for the entire house.  This very well might send me over the edge.  For some reason, paint colors really overwhelm me.  I do not love that there are thousands of choices all very similar to each other.  Who would have thought that picking paint colors would be so difficult?  Suggestions are welcome or the whole house may end up being khaki!