Wednesday, January 5, 2011

January 5th - the home stretch

OK we are almost there. A lot of work has gone on and we are getting really excited about nearing the end of the long road and moving back in.

The built in cabinets in the living room turned out great. The bottom cabinets are ones we purchased with the ones in the rest of the house, but the shelves were all custom made by Hyo, Chris and his carpenters from stock pieces.

Paint is up everywhere as well. This is a light greenish-gray and really looks great with the white trim. This is the view through the living room and into the bonus room.

The kitchen cabinets are all in as well the last few finish items are to put the pend pannels on the underside of the island and peel all the blue protective film off of the doors. These will both wait until after the counter tops go in and the floors are all finished.

The wider window over the sink has an extra deep sill from pushing the window toward the outside of the house. They also installed the sink - it is a cast iron farmhouse (also called apron front) design and will mount underneath the counter.

Sorry for the Batman angle- the software is acting up again. This is the island and that stainless thing is the microwave. The door on this design pulls down like an oven making it easier to use in the under counter position. The space underneath the microwave will house a warming drawer that matches.

Across form the island is the kitchen desk. It is counter height so we can use the same stools for the island eating area and the desk and the space between the top of the counter and the bottom of the upper cabinets will house a computer monitor mounted on the wall.

This is where the rage will eventually go the yellow wire is for the vent hood. To the left underneath the upper cabinets is the appliance garage. It isn't yet installed since it has to be installed on top of the counter.

This is the former guest room ("blue room"). The color is pretty much the same as it was though it is a new color. The closet has been moved to the same wall as the entry door to the room. The old closet space was merged with the old master bedroom.

Another view of the room.

Here is the tile in the hall bath shower/tub area. There are a couple of small pencil tiles missing that were ordered in the niche, but it is pretty much done. Looks great!

Here is the guest room the window on the left is the existing window and the one on the right is one we had to special order to match.

The marble tile in the master bath. Underneath all of this is a heated floor system that wraps around into the toilet room to the left. The marble is on the floor and around the tub. The walls in the shower (to the ceiling) and around the wall of the tub (to a chair rail) are white subway.

Here is a view of the tile around the tub and on the walls.

The shower floor is a marble basket weave tile.

The toilet room.

The mater bedroom sliding french door.

A wider view of that wall.

Here is Abby's room. The color looks a little pinkish more than the purple it is here. A pale purple. Very cute.

Her closet. This is the same place where a closet was before, but it absorbed the space from the closet on the other side of the wall in the blue room.

The front foyer. You can make out the two tone paint in the powder room. This will be separated by a white chair rail.