More progress

Again, it's 4 weeks since my last update, but there's lots of news.  Seems that a blog is a lot of work!  Either I have photos ready or I have text to share, but to get both ready...well, that has caused a lot of delays.  A week ago I started on the text for this post, and since this time yesterday I've tried 4 times to upload the photos that are finally ready to illustrate what I want to say.  No success with the upload.  Maybe I'll post pics without words another day.

We've had a successful shopping trips for doorknobs, heat vent covers, a small piece of linoleum, ceramic tile, a vanity, 4 more light fixtures and towel bars.

There's visible progress everywhere these days!  I'm getting nervous about how poorly I'm prepared to actually MOVE.

About a week ago we had our first look at the dining / living room areas without scaffold.  That experience added greatly to the feeling that it's a home. Also a week ago, we commemerated the first anniversary of Frame Raising.  The journey's felt long, but in some ways, it's only a year that we've been building on the house.

Except for the door & trim, the upstairs bathroom is finished!  Vanity, fixtures, towel bars, lights, and linoleum.

All the light fixtures are up.  The laminate flooring in the rest of the upstairs is finished.  The last of the masking tape is taken off walls & beams.  Granite tile is awaiting grout in the ensuite bath.  The 20 sq ft of ceramic tile is laid in the main entrance.  This evening Dennis reached the 2/3 point of the main floor laminate, which worked out exactly right.  The end of the hallway just past the kitchen was the 2/3 mark, and we got the phone call (also this evening) that the kitchen cabinets will be delivered tomorrow, at the short extreme of the estimated 4-5 weeks since they were ordered!  Amazing timing!

There is still 110 sq ft of ceramic tile to go, and all the grouting.  We continue to look for an antique cabinet to re-purpose as a vanity for the ensuite.  And the over-ambitious "countdown to moving" will switch to single digits tomorrow morning.