Finally, pictures of everything that's new

Ok, so now I do believe everything is going to happen. I believe that because so much has happened. We've gotten all of the molding in place and all of the window trim. The floor has been installed and "thank the maker" we have lights. Not only do we have lights, but we have under the cupboard lights, in the cabinet lights, and lights upon lights.

Tomorrow, the counter top, sink and plumbing is supposed to be installed. I think we jinxed ourselves, but we didn't do dishes tonight because we're gambling that we're going to have a dishwasher. Fingers crossed!
This is the new mudroom. The back door will be the last thing painted. Hard to believe that the bulk of our old cabinets were exactly where the new closet is now. You can see the old windows that used to be above the sink.















New kitchen prep area with just the flood lights.


















Same area with just the under cupboard lights on.














New floor. Do you notice that white thing with handles sticking out? That would be the refrigerator not in the middle of the floor, but rather exactly where it's supposed to go. You'll see more pictures of that tomorrow most likely. Also they'll be putting up the blinds in the windows too.

Day 115

Attribute it to laziness but I don't want to hunt down the cord to download pictures. I have a general idea of where it is. It will show up - eventually.

Lots of exciting things have taken place here in the last two days. First of all, we have lights - lots of them! There are three zones of can lights, pendents, a chandelier and under the cabinet lighting! The under the cabinet lighting was somewhat a surprise to us since we didn't remember ever discussing it (but really, why wouldn't you want it?). Then, today the electrician was back and started installing a plug in the island and put lights in our china cabinets. It's all beautiful.

The electrician might have finished his job except he got kicked out by the flooring people! I couldn't even remember what the flooring looked like since I picked it out months ago. I love it, it's beautiful. We went with a linoleum for many reasons, but mostly to save money. In the grand scheme of remodeling, flooring and counter tops are easily changed. Cabinets and square footage are not and that's where our money has gone. When we need a change in 10 years we can upgrade the flooring. Until then, I'm liking my pretend tile print with the grout that already looks dirty. This will work very well in our home!

Flooring continues Wednesday, counter tops on Friday morning and the plumber is coming Friday afternoon. I don't know how realistic it is to think I might have a sink or dishwasher for the weekend but I like to dream! We are so tired of doing dishes in the bathtub!

Day 110

We've been led to believe that everything is going to happen next week. Oct. 3 is going to be a huge day; I think that's when the flooring is going to be installed. Then, on Friday countertops and plumbing is going be completed. Sometime early next week electrical will finish up and that includes the work outside so we can use our garage again (there hasn't been any electricity out there in 110 days).

The trim work was completed today and looks awesome.

Rick, the expediter, keeps asking me for the pulls and knobs. The truth is I haven't even looked. Kevin had told me not to worry about it. If I buy something 6 weeks from now they'll still come out and install them. We've decided to make an effort and get this taken care of this weekend.

I can't wait to "move" in.

Update so far

We continue to see progress, albeit slow, but still some progress. The stuff they are doing now is tedious work that needs to get done. They have completed most of the trim work. This includes the window and door trim that I have stained. There is one window left that they ran out of trim, and the pocket door too.

This week they continue to rip out the linoleum and lay down some very thin sub flooring to even everything out in the old and new parts. This is tedious since they have to make custom cuts around the cabinets. Speaking of cabinets, they are also leveling off all of the cabinets as the people who actually hung them, just hung them. As it turns out, they hung one about 7 inches too short and the guys yesterday raised it up. It makes sense now as the cabinet now has space above the counter and the outlets that were hidden are available.

I don't know what more they'll be doing. I keep hearing that next week is when everything will happen. I'm so tired of waiting right now, I'm being very pessimistic. I don't know if all sorts of stuff will happen next week. I hope it's sooner so that I have something more to tell and take pictures of.

We Purchase Sink #3

If you recall, we returned the first stainless steal sink for a higher quality stainless steal sink. This weekend we were at a friend's house and saw their sink. I need that sink. They weren't
quite sure of the material but described it to us. Today Brian spoke to Stephanie, our designer, and they determined it's probably Swanstone. So, even though I stayed home sick today I was well enough to go purchase/order a new sink. Swanstone is a middle of the road solid surface material...not as expensive as granite or Corian, but a huge step above stainless steal.

Since the dealer is going to work with our designer and bill her it's a done deal. No more debating! Counter tops are going to be ordered tomorrow or the next day (they are waiting on the specs of the sink, hence why I was well enough to go buy a sink). Our project manager asked me where all the other items were like dishwasher, hood, lights, garbage disposal...maybe the end is in sight?

CABINETS!!!

Friday evening we got a call letting us know that a crew would be out Saturday morning to install our cabinets! This was exciting because we thought the install was Monday (so now maybe something else will happen on Monday?). It's much easier to visualize the finished product now!



Here is where our refrigerator will be housed along with the microwave. The microwave is going to have a "built in" look.
This is one feature that I wanted in our new cabinetry...garbage/recycling bins that are built in. Currently, our garbage is in a hall closet near the "old" back door. While this wasn't terribly inconvenient in the old kitchen, it is a considerable walk from the new kitchen to the old garbage. Ah...yet another closet in this house that will be freed up as a result of the addition! I haven't yet decided what's going to become of that closet.
After seeing how large the corner cabinet is with the lazy Susan, Brian and I both commented on how this is approximately how much space was in our old kitchen. I really believe I could put the contents of the old kitchen on those two shelves!

Last night we were at a friend's newly built house and I took notice of their sink. It's made of a material that I haven't seen before and I think I'm ready to return sink #2 and purchase sink #3. I'm just hoping that if it's something we need to order we'll be able to get it in time so we don't hold anything up in terms of installation. The research begins today to find out what kind of sink it is!

Day 93 - Wednesday

I just got a call from our HVAC guy. They're at the house right now setting up all of the heating ducts, ventilation, A/C and gas pipes. I hope when we come home today we'll have working A/C. What sucks about this right now is that it's been in the 60's all this week, getting down to the low 40's at night. Hello fall!

Perhaps, we'll have one more scorcher so we can use the A/C just to say we did.