Moving Day!

Well, we're finally moving in this evening. It's been quite a journey! We got a lot done last night installing closet shelves, bathroom accessories, and door knobs, and the carpet was put down on the stairs this morning. It's going to be great to get settled in to our new house.

Crazy last days

Well, everything's at a fever pitch. The carpet installation got pushed back to this morning because the installer injured himself last week and one of the carpet pieces was defective and had to be reordered. So they'll install the basement this morning and the stairs on Thursday. It'll be great to get that in.
The building inspector is coming for final inspection on Friday afternoon. Hopefully everything goes well so we can get our Certificate of Occupancy.
Just a lot of little finishing details now like bathroom accessories, some painting, door knobs, urethaning, 3 closet shelves, Comcast hook-up, ... We're not going to have it all done by this weekend, but that's okay since it's all stuff we can easily do after moving in. Speaking of moving in, we were planning on this Saturday but it's supposed to rain so now we're going to try for Friday evening and a little on Saturday if we need it.

Carpet

Carpet's going in today...yayyy! Christine and I are continuing to plug away at things in the evening, like touch up painting the trim and urethaning the balustrade. Then Dave and I will have one more big push on Saturday to do a lot of the final details like undercabinet lights, closet lights, smoke alarms, etc. So close!

Almost done

Working away

Well, we've just been continuing to work away at the house. In many ways we're very close to finishing, but we also know that there are a million little details that still need to be completed. The biggest job is going to be the railing and balusters. In addition, we still have to put in the bathroom vanities, upstairs toilet, sinks, faucets, door knobs, lights, smoke alarms...

On Friday I was able to go to Home Depot to get all our final materials. So we've got pretty much everything we need to finish - we just need time to do it all. What we've accomplished recently...Well, with my mom's help we got the tile in the bathrooms all finished up and it looks great. Also my dad installed a bunch of electric outlets. We've also put about 2/3 of the interior trim up. I've been working on this a lot - I got all the windows trimmed out and am now doing baseboard. My father-in-law has been installing doors and door trim. We also finished putting in all the electric outlets and switches, so they're ready to get plates put on and be done. We're moving along and there's a lot of little jobs that Christine and I can do in the evenings. If I get a chance, I'll take some pics soon and post them.

Pics

Tile

Haven't posted in a while. But we have been working hard. I'm doing a lot of tiling - we're putting in 13x13 porcelain tiles in the mudroom and 2 bathrooms. I've completed the mudroom and now need to rent a wet saw to finish up the bathrooms. Hopefully we'll get that finished up pretty soon. Next up, start trimming out the windows (interior) and install all the electrical outlets. Fun!

Sometime soon I'll get some pics up of the tile, as well as the crown molding and counters that are all finished in the kitchen.