It's been a week since we've posted -- and very busy at work for both of us, and with the snow and ice storm, not a lot of time for the contractors to do their stuff. Because of the weather they were not able to dig up the driveway as planned so that will be done this week. However as you can see they did get a good start on the inside trim and baseboards -- which we are having done to match the raw/light stain pine we did upstairs. They've done a great job, but it looks like now we'll need to replace the back sliding glass door since it's got a seal leak! Yikes.


The appliances all got delivered and we love the new fridge. It's going to look great in the empty slot on the cabinets, along with the oven and microwave, and Gary spent the day taking off tape and stickers from inside the fridge from shipping. Right now it's plugged into an extension cord since the electrician still needs to wire the outlet for it, but it beats our "white trash" fridge on the front porch/breezeway that I just know the neighbors have been loving! And it's great fun going out side in 25 degree weather to get a drink or snack!

The stone people, well not 'STONE PEOPLE' or 'people made of stone', but people who work for the company that will be cutting out stone slab for our counter -- anyway THEY were at the house on Friday and created a template for the kitchen counters and the master bath vanity. It will take about 2 weeks to get the slab ready for installation, and until then we have to work around installed cabinets with no tops.

I wonder if we should move stuff back in yet to the bathroom? Probably not.

The most visible work was on the outside -- where Travis and Rob got all the siding up on the garage! Tony wants to leave it unpainted and have the rest of the house stripped to match! It does look (and smell) really nice, and they guys from Ideal gave us the back square window which even cranks open, so we are going to have one premium garage.

The large white box in front is the long-lost shower pan too, which arrived this week. Someday soon they'll start tiling and putting the bath back together too.
For those that do not live next door to us and only read the blog, this is probably the last picture of our driveway that you will see before it is torn up and re-graded.