What's the latest?

It's been awhile but trust me things are happening. Mostly things like plumbing, wiring and stuff like that. Yeah, I know...BORING! All good though. BUT now the fun starts! Here are the latest pictures from the house as of today. I wanted to be sure and capture them today b/c next week things will look completely different and I'll have a whole other set of pictures to blab about.

Let's start with Luke. He is doing an incredible job. He's doing alot of work himself and spending hours and hours over at the house. He pulled all the base boards off and used some tool called a planer to shave a layer of the wood off. Sanded them and now they look new. You may ask...why not just buy new base boards. I'm glad you asked. The base boards are made out of long leaf pine. The tree is basically extinct and is no longer available for use on stuff like base boards. Ok, so this is what I was told and I believe it. I love the idea that we are keeping the original base boards.

Here is the living room. The floors were scraped throughout the house today. Luke did all the window trim himself last weekend.

Will checking the mail in the old mail shoot.

The dining room has two doors (the originals) leading in. There is a passage way into the kitchen as well as to hall the leads to the back bedrooms.

There is a pass thru from the kitchen to the back bedrooms. This was already in place however I think we moved it a little b/c of the stair placement. I finally got my tornado closet under the stairs.

  

The kitchen has so much more light since we added the three windows. The upper cabinets on this side of the wall will have glass doors to open it up even more. Guess I need all new dishes...right?

There used to be a linen cabinet where the stairs start.

The floors in the bathrooms are finished. We did the hex-dot pattern. There is a plastic layer over it in this picture to protect it.

The upstairs bedroom. It's longer than our current bedroom and 2 inches skinner. Does that make sense?

The walls are textured in a light "skip trow". I didn't know what that meant. But I do now and I love love love it!

Oh the garage. The garage! This has been a huge eye soar for us and no doubt our neighbors. The driveway had to be dug out last week to add a new water line to support the plumbing on the upstairs bathroom (yeah, that sounds right). I was thrilled today to see Luke parked in the driveway but still just dirt. The garage project started today. It was in such bad shape but Luke had the idea to lift it from the inside out and reframe. I have no idea where he comes up with this stuff but I'll just be so happy when its looks like a real garage again.

And there ya have it. That's the latest in the Hammy Fammy Adventure that is our new house.