More paint!

Vicki and Buck, Molly and Fred came this weekend and added the last bits of textrue and paint to the house. There will be touch-up of course - maybe a second coat in places - and lots of trim to paing, but it is substantially finished! Sprayre make a huge difference - i in the hands of experts. I did not take any work pictures this time, sorry to say. But you can look at some of the end results.

Old doorway between the rental side and our side being closed.

Closed - from the rental side.

Doorway with drywall mudded.

Now - no doorway at all!

Looking up.

View from the top of the stairs - all white!

Bath, too, is white - tile is almost finished!

Baths and wheelie bins

In order to get the rental side of the house finished we have to tear out the old bathroom there - the one we use. So we must finish A bathroom in our side of the house first. That's where Bill and Rick have spent most of the last week - and Mike is there a bit in the near future. It reminds me of a billboard near my folks' house "Coburns (or whoever) Plumbing Supplies - We've been in the bathroom for 36 years" But the tiny shower bath should be usable by tomorrow night!! And Rick is working away on the big one upstairs too. We also got wheelie bins!! Finally. Well that's what they called them in England when we lived there and I like that "evah so much bettah" than "garbage can".

Let there be . . .

Today we left and returned to find that even with both of us going hi-ho-hi-ho-to-work, there were several things done when we returned. More tile was laid today. We WILL get the little bathroom finished before too many more days. Also, there were window balances put in and one more window has trim now.

One more thing happened today - EARLIER than promised. The pictures below are of our part of the house (not the rental side). So can you figure it out? (Please ignore the spots on the camera lens. I'll have it cleaned AFTER construction is finished!)

Bill kept working while we were gone, and has continued to do so since we're back. The things done don't look that big, but they are significant. I will post later a photo of the floor of the small bedroom since I forgot to take a shot of it. However, all of the floors are in except the tile ones, and those are only in the 3 bathrooms. The little bath downstairs on our side is coming along but the big ones both have a lot to go. We're doing as much as possible on the air conditioned side since we're in the same heat wave as most of the country. What is getting done now is trim, doors, and tile in the little bathroom.

Finished the upper block boards in the whole house now!

Using the borrowed trim for the storage area in the rental hall.
We're re-using old doors in the house. Fran, you'll have a door when you come!!

My 1 project is glazing the windows of the interior French doors. I'm learning!

Before we go

We will be traveling for a few days and so we will be surprised by the progress as much as you are when we return. Today we found cabinets that we'll use in our kitchen, bought a toilet, got wood for the small rental bedroom and Bill finished the living room floor. Can you tell where the old corner was??

PASSED!

Well, there has been a good bit of progress, posted below, but the most important thing happened at about 4 PM today. We passed electrical inspection. That means we should soon be able to get electricity on both sides of the house. It means we don't have to do anything more with electrical stuff - though we'll probably do a bit more. It means we can soon have a working fridge, etc!

Finished beam in the kitchen.

Frame around the closets.

Nicely grouted kitchen.

Bill working upstairs in the heat - on the side without electricity.

Floors nearly all laid in our bedroom!

No, the kitchen's not in - but we're playing with spacing!!