Finer Points...

The wrap up continues.

The slow neverending death of the project drags into end of January. This is where we thought it would finish at - so in that aspect we are fairly happy.

This week the floors were finished. We are very happy with the look. You can see the trim around the floors and windows. Most of the trim is done except in the bathroom where we are waiting for the cabinets to arrive "next week".




The doors are in for the closets and the hide away "pocket" door in the bathroom are installed. The handles are not installed but the doors look nice. We are going with a natural wood look instead of a stain to lighten up the upstairs. With the previous dark paneling (see previous pages) anything wood lighten up the upstairs....

The windows are in as well as the outside door to the balcony. They are very nice. We will be able to open them and enjoy the spring, summer and fall wind to draw fresh air to our upstairs.

Hopefully no wild animals.

We will wait until the rest of the work is done to finishing painting the sitting area. There is a bit of touch-up that is needed due to some painting mistakes and bumps and brusies from putting in the windows.


The bathroom is now almost functional - plumbingwise.

The toilet is in and the shower head and handles are in (the water flows nicely...) The door is ordered and will be in soon.

Besides the bathroom cabinets, the rest is the details (finer points) of the project, the lighting, the outlets, switches, fans, etc.

Oh, we need railings around the stairs because that is what the law of Hopkins declares.

Maybe next week you will see interesting things like lights and us moving up stairs. Not likely, but when we do you can see the new furniture...

We have windows, and floors too

The end is near. Well, not that end - but the other end, the end of this project.
Or so we think...

Anyway, this week all the windows were installed. They look good (I don't have pictures so trust me... They are windows) The trim should be done this week.

Next is finishing the floors.

You can see the wood in the bedroom area.

The wood is birch, which should add to the warm feeling in the upstairs. The floor wood is added in the closets. The entry in the upstairs and the sitting area should be completed early this week, while all the millwork should also be completed.

Painting because we care

The project has begun to wrap up.

We are have spent the last few days or so priming the walls and and putting up the initial paint on the walls. Some of the decisions to wait for the full coats will be because it really sounded like a good idea to stop painting due to "the high level of sick of looking at paint buckets" factor.

The priming was helped by Karyn on Christmas day before the cookie decorating began.


We decided to paint the bathroom some sort of blue-lighter than normal blue but not green. The blueness goes out into the sitting room area. The top half of the sitting area will have a metallice blue color, which is pretty cool looking. That will go up after the windows and trim are in so we can figure out how it will look, etc.


You click on any of these to see the details..




The bedroom is going to be light gray, which is actually looking nice. The hallway will be sort of "dirty terracotta" what ever that means - weird orange? I don't know we actually haven't bought the paint yet.

Other updates, the windows are still not in but the new guess it will be the week of the 8th. We are now going with new floors in the bedroom area.