OMG!!!!!!

At approximately 5pm this evening, Jay installed the final piece of woodwork for the house project.

the last piece of the project

I am not sure if we are in shock or what, but we will need to celebrate! The only thing left to do is strip the paint off the interior door and restain it. That shouldn't be too hard. Perhaps we will work on it this weekend....oh wait...we are building shelves in the basement this weekend.....

First and hopefully LAST house project Injury

The vertical brown stripe is the sliver. This photo, courtesy of Dr. Braun and his Iphone.

So while helping Jay, I of course, got a piece of something in my eye. After 45 minutes of rinsing and flushing and even showering, I couldn't get it out. I caved and called the eye doctor. Luckily, this was on Monday and they were open. Told me to come right in. Turns out, I had an E shaped, 3 pronged piece of red oak embedded in a fold in my eyelid. Yay. It hurt.

So close!

As soon as we (or Jay at this point in time) finishes painting our test wall, we can put up the final pieces of trim and we will be 95% finished with the house project. The final step is grouting the new tile Jay installed this morning in the front entrance area. We have to let the tile set for a couple days and then grout. We settled on the tile. I wanted this amazing Motawi Tileworks looking tile, but at $100 a square foot, we figured our budget didn't allow for it. We searched and searched, and couldn't agree, so thanks to Home Depot, we found a porcelain tile called Bengal Slate and settled on putting a pattern of 2x2 squares and 6x6 squares in the area. Came in under $400, so we were quite happy. All our other ideas were going to be in excess of $700, and that seemed ridiculous.

Enjoy the photos!

Almost done!

We are so close! Luckily, the remaining items to complete are relatively simple- Trim!

So, here are some photos of the almost finished product!

Newly Refinished Floors!

Old Floor

New floor

so busy.....

so there really are no good photos to post. we started staining the trim and it is all in the basement drying. the hardwood floors get refinished on Thursday this week. more photos later.

Better photos and back to Blogging

sorry for the delay....rosemary. Jay has had me so busy that I didn't even have time to charge the camera battery so I could take adequate photos. And they are merely adequate. I really need a new camera. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. As I type, Jay is installing outlet covers in the dining room...and swearing mildly. 

ugly dining room with wall paper...stripped window though. sorry no pre-paint stripping photos.....

view from dining room to living room. beige beige beige. yuck yuck yuck

post wall paper removal....

nice new palladian or palladino (can't remember) blue!

top of stairs. ignore laundry basket.

check out new window nicely painted and beautifully trimmed

ah, the dining room.

the sundance yellow entry nook. will have a door in this space.....

look! real oak trim! stained early american by yours truly.

another view of dining room into kitchen and living room