OKAY OKAY. I've been awful about keeping everyone up to date on our house progress!
What can I say? We've been really busy this summer. Stella has a lot of requests: swinging, sliding, helping in the garden, and just enjoying the great outdoors.
So here goes nothing. Time for some grand updates. Let's get through the pictures with snow on the ground, shall we?
First, a reminder for all you non-believers....
Not only was our brush pile larger than yours, but now our bonfire is too.
With scores of oak trees on our property, the brush pile seems to have renewed itself since last fall. I suppose we'll have another bonfire gathering this winter too!
But, I digress. On to the real work.
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| With the location of the new stairwell, the front door is officially out of commission! |
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| Remember our laundry room is downstairs in the main house. Until the stairs were completed, the ladder was the only way into the basement.Thankfully Greg is speedy. |
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| Door gone, replaced with a transom window to let in natural light. This side of the house faces the highway so we purposely put the window higher. It's set to where we can see everything but the cars going by. |
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| Staircase: Complete! Another job well done. |
The walls were surprisingly easy to put up. I thought we'd be talking about a month or two before the walls were up. It was more like a few days to a week! Before I could utter the words "Where's my walk-in closet?" the walls were up and we could walk through our new home. And my walk-in closet.
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| Securing the walls is a tedious job. |
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| Greg burning the midnight oil: Constructing our new bathroom. |
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| View from the garage |
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| Standing in the new living room - the yet-to-be-completed staircase is straight ahead, followed by the bathroom and Stella's room at the end of the hall. |
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| Across the hall from the stairwell is the entrance to the master suite as well as the main floor laundry (YAY!) |
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| View from the master suite: Straight ahead is the walk-in closet (!!!) as well as the entrance to the master bath. |
Now this is what I'm talking about!! Can't you see it?
Next up: How to turn a garage into our dream kitchen!
