Lots of barely visible progress

Lots has been accomplished in the last week or so, but there is little evidence of the progress when you walk through the house.  Many of our walls still look mostly like this:

And this:

We have no water, some electric.  Dust is everywhere.  Nothing is finished.  But the good news is that everything is started and lots of things are past the halfway point, dare I say almost finished?  (Ok, that is a bit of a stretch!)  We are still relatively on "schedule."  Not that we ever had a schedule, but when we bought the house, Brett and I calculated what we thought this would all require as far as time, and we estimated a move-in at the end of October.  We *might* be in by Halloween.  If not, the first weekend or two in November.  Not too bad.

All the hardwoods are in (upstairs and down) and they look great.  They have not yet been sanded and finished, that will be the last step in the renovation.  For now, then can just get trashed!  We are thrilled to have them upstairs as well.  Thanks for all your input.

We do have all new electrical in the kitchen (notice those holes in the walls!).  Light switches have been moved and added to work with the new kitchen layout.  Cable outlets removed and relocated in many places.  We have added recessed lighting as well as pendant lighting for over the island.  We have all new plumbing on the entire first floor - the plumber had to remove the 1980s Polybutalene piping which will no longer pass inspection and replace ALL of it.

See those new recessed lights in the kitchen!

 

We even have a new stove!  It's on our floor in the family room - right where stoves belong, right?  It's a Bertazzoni and I can't wait to show it to you - it is beautiful.  A little piece of jewelry for our kitchen!

 



We have a new 80 gallon water heater, now in the garage instead of the hall closet (which is going to give us a bigger shower!).

Brett stripped all the closets of their wire shelving so he can repaint them and build in wooden shelves and maximize their usable space.  The closets in this house are generally a little smaller than in our last house, so adding shelves and double hanging rods and shoe shelves and things like that will be really helpful over the long run.  That's his next big project.

Before all the closets had some type of wire shelving like this.

Now they are all "naked" like this!

The master bath is plumbed and rewired - new light over the shower, wired for a chandelier over the tub, etc.

The black box will hold a chandelier over our (yet-to-be-selected-or-purchased) free-standing tub.

 

Oh, and my new addition to the playroom is lookin' good.  We have a light switch, recessed light and two electrical outlets in there now.  The room feels (and is) much bigger.

To be honest, this weekend we mostly did this:

And this:

 



 And a little of this:

Instead of this:

But, hey, you gotta play a little, too, right?