Progress

A lot of progress has taken place over the past couple of weeks.  I anticipate much more progress to come in the near future as well.  The bedrooms upstairs are almost ready for carpet, which is really exciting!

Here are a couple shots of the nursery.  There will be a cute Winnie the Pooh border separating the green and blue paint.  There will also be butterflies on the wall.

 

Here's Connor's room-we are going for mountains with tufts of grass.

 Here's our new room.  Each room got a new ceiling fan.  The original fan in this room was missing a few blades.  The fan at the top of the stairs only works with a remote and guess what??  The owners didn't leave that behind...go figure.  So we have one more fan to purchase.  For now the fourth bedroom upstairs will not be getting a ceiling fan.  That room hasn't been worked on yet, but it will be the office/craft room.

This weekend this wonderful floor was put in.  We don't hear any creaking while walking down the hallway.  Once the fourth bedroom is done and painted, we'll have carpet installed here.

Back downstairs this is what our front room windows look like.  But they won't look like that for long, on Saturday my shipment of window covering arrived.

Also on Saturday we organized the garage.  Before it was a bit of a maze.  Boxes containing our island were in here and a big shelf.  We mounted the big shelf on the left wall, which is currently covered by a big drywall plank.  We also took the island cabinets inside and started playing with them.

With them roughly in the right place we realized we made a big calculation mistake.  We wanted an 8 foot island and ordered cabinets to be 8 feet long.  We didn't take into consideration the fact that we were building a pony wall for extra seating.  The three cabinets together were just too long.  So after a few options were thrown out we decided the island would consist of these two cabinets.

And this cabinet will be over here in the corner and will store the garbage and recycling cans.  We were going to put a breakfast nook over here, but I can live without that.  It looks like we'll have more than enough seating.  Not to mention we did just buy a 6 foot folding table with 8 chairs so we have enough seating for the big family dinners that we often throw.  The island will also have enough seating for at least 4 as well.

With the pony wall the island will be about 7 feet long and will have two heights.  The higher height will be for eating, the lower will be for preparing.

A few weeks back work on the stucco began again.  This is the window by the front door.  It looks so much better.  Once all the work inside is done, the last layer of stucco will be added.

And last but not least...here is how the garden is doing.  We plucked our first zucchini today.  We have been enjoying strawberries and a couple varieties of cherry tomatoes as well as a purple pepper.  Our carrots, green onion and radishes in another part of the yard have been doing wonderfully well.