House Update #8

It has been a while since the last set of pictures and a LOT has been accomplished! We have cabinets, drywall, paint, floors, a functioning laundry room, finished siding all across the back of the house, a bench along the back wall of the deck, a widened driveway and lights! Woohoo!!

We are scheduled to get countertops next Wednesday. That translates to plumbing (sink and dishwasher) on Thursday, so we're (I'm) still doing dishes in the kids' bathroom sink. The ceilings are getting scraped in the rest of the house next Monday-Wednesday so we're camping out at John and Linda's for a while. There are still some big ticket items to finish, like the counters and backsplash...but the little ticky-tack items are proving to be more annoying. Like painting the baseboards in the dining room. That won't happen until last-minute, but it's keeping us from relocating all the dining room stuff out of the living room. And the one can light in the kitchen that got cut in the wrong place- that will require a patch, mud, sand, paint job before the hole can be re-cut. Annoying, but liveable.

This is standing in the hallway looking into/through the kitchen (please note Makena's outfit includes knit tights on a day that's slated to be 88 degrees).

Standing in the dining roomKitchen- like my makeshift countertops? That's leftover flooring boards locked together. Came up with that one all by me onesie.

Laundry room- the old fridge will go in that corner on the right.And this is how we've been living. Although we were able to relocate most of the kitchen stuff back into the new cabinets...and now most of the laundry/cleaning stuff is back into the laundry room cabinets...the dining room still resides in the living room. Soon...soon...soon...