It's coming together at last!

The house was a whirlwind of activity today. The finish carpenters are busy wrapping up many parts of the house. Upstairs only a few pieces of baseboard remain to be done. The mud room now only lacks a couple of baseboards to finish the carpenters work in there. The bench and coat rack look fabulous and now are ready for paint after a teeny bit more sanding.

The laundry needs only paint touchup and final cleaning to be ready for service. The new washer and dryer are unwrapped and ready for hookup.

The stairs are now almost all tiled save for the small bits of tile in the nosings.

The guest room is also now ready for tile.

There is still an enourmous amount to do but the list gets a teeny bit shorter every day.

-grampa dan

Detail with an important function

I was doing a delivery to the WhistlePunk Hollow project for most of the day but while I was gone lots of people were busy in the house. Sarah, Becke and big Matt were busy painting various places. The exciting news was that today the first of the doors got their first coats of paint. Janis is in charge of this part of the project as she gives them the detailed attention they deserve.

Downstairs the finish carpenters were busy. Jesse worked on baseboard trim while Brent worked on a new project - the mudroom bench and coatrack. It is going to be a spectacular feature that will serve our family well for years to come. It will feature a ten foot long bench with a built in coatrack on the wall behind. A sturdy shelf above will hold all the accessories. 

Underneath the bench there is plenty of room under the bench for our shoes and boots.

The sturdy brackets for the shelf feature Janis' beloved butterflies of course.

By tomorrow night the bench area should be almost complete. I can hardly wait to see it done!

-grampa dan

Sew?

The work continued late into the evening hours today. Houses don't build themselves. I did the fidly work first, tiling about half the stairs. Then it was on to Janis' large sewing room. I've learned the easiest way for me to tile is to do the big area first, then come back the next day and first cut then lay the edges to fit perfectly. There were 150 full size tiles on this floor. There will be plenty of room for Janis to do her quilting in this room.

Tile by tile we get closer each day to moving in. No firm date yet but it will be soon!

-grampa dan