Boxes and boxes

Progress is continuing at a pretty good pace. Here is a quick summary of what’s happening.

  1. Hardwood flooring is completely installed on the second floor. It looks so great, we just love it. More rustic than we had before, with lots of character.
This is the upstairs guest bedroom. I have it all painted as well, so just trim, baseboards, doors and a fan and it will be completed!

2. Exterior finishing on the house is completed (except the stone work). The house looks so good and the guys did such a fantastic job. They care about all the little details and it exceeded our expectations.

3. The whole house has been primed and all the ceiling painted. The kitchen painting is complete and they will be finishing up the great room and master bedroom today. The rest of the rooms we will be painting ourselves. It’s looking like a real house now!

First coat of paint in the Master Bedroom

4. We got all our cabinetry delivered yesterday and our house is full of boxes now. They will start installing the kitchen cabinets this week. Sooooo exciting!!

5. Aron has the tile all prepped for install in the laundry room. We are heading to AB on Thursday and we will finish installing them when we get back. Then the cabinets can go in and we can get our washer and dryer back.

Laundry room

6. They have been making fantastic progress on the garage siding. They started it in earnest on Sunday and I think they will be done by the end of the week.

And we’ve been doing other things like installing the bathroom vanity light fixtures, our new ‘Ring’ doorbell and security lights and painting trim and stair risers.

We have run into one bump along the way. We had our water system all working and pulling our water from the river. Aron dug deep and buried the lines last fall. We had a real cold spell a few weeks back and the water system was still working so we thought that was the ultimate test for us. But shortly after that the edges of the river started freezing over more and then suddenly our water intake line froze up. So now we have to put in a line from shore to pump water into our storage tank every few days. Once the weather warms enough we’ll be back in business, but until then, it is a pain! This summer Aron will get to do more digging!!!