What A Difference Some Paint Makes

Reminder: This is what the front of The Dump looked like in February:

This is what it looks like in September:

Pretty amazing. I'm pretty happy.

More photos:

And the tile guy has been busy

Master bath shower

So gorgeous

We're trying to figure it out.

Downstairs powder room. Counter and sink installed.

A House Full of Workers

Plumber installed bar hardware

Brad's work on the back steps and landing

Plumber hooking up the gas line

Aimee and Dennis power wash the stucco before painting

Tile guy is doing a fantastic job

From mudroom into powder room

Deck and stairs by the end of Friday

Our long lost electrician stopped by on Saturday. It works!

Dishwasher: check

All the way to the back door

The Counter Tops are Here! The Counter Tops are Here!

The granite guys from RSK Granite are amazing! Need some granite? Go to them.

Microwave goes in niche above

Bar

This photo does not do this granite justice.

Master bath

My desk is moved in.

We have a kitchen sink and a faucet. And they work.

Not operational yet

Desk in place

Air Conditioning. Tile Layout. Cabinet Hardware.

Stucco guy finished the stucco on the new addition (photos tomorrow). Looks fantastic. We have A/C on the 2nd and 3rd floor, now that it is 30 degrees at night. Joe spent a ton of time today installing beautiful kitchen hardware. Nice.

This is the lower temp of Steve's A/C tolerance. 

Tile rug. Who thinks of these things? CHC Designs, that's who.

Unpacking boxes

Plates in the cabinet

Look at those cabinet pulls!

So beautiful

Labor Day

When you're renovating a house, you're not happy with a three-day weekend. That means no work on the house for three days. (Except, of course, for the work you do as a homeowner. Which is never ending and includes hefting original doors out of the garage, tiling bathrooms, and surveying the yard to try to figure out what the hell you're going to do with that mess.)

Today was a good day. A/C is working on 2nd and 3rd floors. I spent the day cleaning the shelves of the new cabinets to begin shelving stuff so we can get rid of boxes. Once the HVAC guys are done clomping about (I mean that in a good way) we can remove the floor covering and get some damn furniture in here.

Steve continues to tile. I continue to supervise. Thanks for listening.

Stucco

Not as sexy and exciting as a new kitchen, but this looks wonderful. Kieran from Kinsale stuccoed the kitchen addition (first coat), the area inside the portico, and repaired broken/cracked existing stucco. He comes back next week for the final coat.

Stuccoing the kitchen addition

First stucco coat

Back of house

The other side of the addition

See that stucco on the second floor? To the right of the window? That USED to be a window. We had to move it, or else it would have been in the shower.

Stucco in the portico. We're keeping the door, but will refinish and paint.

Repaired stucco outside the master bedroom

Inside Doors, Kitchen Counter Tops

Tomorrow the stucco guy comes. Kieran from Kinsale, Ireland. He is going to stucco the kitchen addition and repair the broken stucco on the side of the house. Then we can wash and paint.

Steve is tiling like mad (not quite fast enough but he has a day job). Our electrician went on a 2 week vacation to Disney World. (Two weeks??? Yikes.) Worse, he left us in the lurch. Our HVAC guy has been MIA for days. We need him to install the controls for the A/C, reinstall the radiators, and, after the kitchen counter tops are in, the kitchen appliances. It's complicated.

We did pull out some doors (which were stored in the garage), cleaned them up and installed them.

I had forgotten how gorgeous these doors are. We measured all the openings and matched the doors to the doorways. Each one was gross; they had to be scrubbed. They are solid! If anyone knows what kind of wood this is,please let me know.

Steve pulling out the doors. Someone has to take the photos.

Gorgeous, but dirty.

Connor is very happy to have a door.

Templating for kitchen counters

Lots of measuring

Craig tells them what's what. Square corners. These guys will have nightmares for years.