Merry Christmas Everyone!!

I probably won't be posting for a week or so. Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

Appliances have arrived!

Just came today - the range, hood, dishwasher and microwave. We're reusing our refrigerator - it's going to be tricky getting it back in the house though - that sucker was HEAVY!

Second Floor Paint

Both floor are now painted.

First Floor Paint

We had them paint the whole house in one color and will do any accent walls ourselves in the future. Color is a Benjamin Moore paint called White Chocolate.

Basement Drywall

Basement walls are drywalled, taped and mudded.


Hard to see but this is our future "family/media room"

Laundry Room

The concrete has been poured for the laundry room floor. Dugan used concrete instead of gypcrete because we'll be leaving the laundry room floor bare (sealed concrete). We'll be doing gypcrete in the rest of the basement since we'll put some sort of finish on top of it, probably carpet.

Mud and Tape

This is the wall between the crawlspace and basement. The black material at the bottom is a waterproofing membrane.

Living Room

Master Bedroom

Drywall Complete!

Here's Lola in her future room...

Or maybe it'll be this one?

View from the front - you can see the drywalled ceiling and walls inside.
Dugan is currently working the concrete in the basement and has poured the sidewalk concrete (just a minimal area to patch where the porch used to be)

More Drywall

The spaces feel so different with all of the drywall installed!
Here are Derek and Lola doing a walk-through on the first floor.


Here's a view of the dining/living room, standing from the stairs.

Insulation Complete and Drywall in Process

They finished the insulation on Thursday and have been installing drywall all weekend. I'm having problems uploading photos so I will try again tomorrow!