House progress report

Here's a photo showing the wet bar upstairs. The Baltic Brown granite is installed, along with the sink, faucet and backsplash. The under-cabinet lights are there, waiting to be installed. We bought the granite in 18" x 26" "mini-slabs" from our favorite local flooring surplus store here, for a little over $10/square foot.

Another photo of the upstairs shower-bath surround. The Marmoleum flooring has been installed, and you can see the toilet has, too.

Upstairs vanity, plumbing and backsplash completed.

This shows a bit of our Rainforest Brown marble we got for the upstairs fireplace surround. Some of the pieces turned out to be book-matched and we will take good advantage of that.

Here's another shot of one of our nice ceiling lights. This is over the Nook.

Finally, here's a photo showing the state of the kitchen backsplash. The area behind the range is being worked on at the moment. The vent over the range has been installed, too.

Lisa took all these photos.

Things they be a happenin' !

Yet to be done: More concrete work. That includes the front steps, a set of steps from the master bath rear door, the steps from the garage up to the utility room, and a small 3 X 3 pad for the side garage door. Grouting the floor slate. Installing the stair steps and risers. Finishing the floors/stairs and sealing the slate. Paving the driveway and sidewalk. Moving in (?)...maybe in early June...party!

We did run into a small "gotcha" regarding the downstairs Fir doors. Lisa and I hunted those down and got them hung; but apparently that didn't include routing out all the recesses for the door hardware. So that needs to be done before the door hardware can be installed. We definitely revealed our "newbie" status there when it comes to housebuilding....