Trimming Away

The trim carpenters have been on site for quite a while now and we are really starting to see the fruits of their labor.  When I see someone who actually creates something with their profession like these guys do, I start to wonder exactly what it is I accomplish as a lawyer...

These pictures are kind of a mid-way update of the trim carpenters' work.

A floor shot of the table saw to see our living room turned in to a millworks shop.

The stove will go in the middle here, with a hood vent built in above.

This is a shot of our pantry.  I pulled the roll outs all the way out to show off the full extension mechanisms.  You will also see our smallest employee taking care of the most difficult items in the house.  She is very volatile and if disturbed, is liable to lay face down on the ground without saying a word.  Artists...

Another shot of the cabinets surrounding the stove, this time with drawers installed.  Doors are on their way...

Cabinets in the utility room.  The washer and drawer will go below the upper cabinets.  Above the lower cabinets we decided to do exposed floating shelves, which are yet to be installed.

This is our coatrack/mudroom piece in the utility room.

Fridge goes on the left, sink below the windows.  More cabinets to come in a couple of days.

A Little Bit of Paint Goes a Long Way

So much of the recent work has been on the inside of the house, but we finally saw vast improvement outside.  The past couple of weeks we have seen the house undergo an extreme makeover with the simple addition of new paint.  Not too many words needed for this before and after.

BEFORE

BEFORE MINUS TREES

MIDWAY WITH PRIMER

AFTER!  Note the Porch is also completed!

Tile

We definitely busted our budget when it came to tile, but I think it will be well worth the investment.  Our tile guy, Delbert, was slow but meticulous.  I was afraid it would take six months for good ol' Delbert to git r' dun, but he finally finished and we are thrilled.  We tried to keep things looking like they might have in 1910, but its always a difficult task to stay contemporary without looking strange in a 100 year old house.

Kitchen and utility floors.

The same floors extend to the guest bathroom adjoined to the utility room right off the kitchen.

This is the bathroom we call "Hattie's Bathroom."  If you saw our last house, it's pretty similar to the white subway tile we used previously, in fact 100 square feet are from our last bathroom leftovers!  This time we stopped it part way up the walls with a chair rail at about 36 inches.

Just a reminder that this was what it used to look like...

This is our master shower.  We went with white marble subway from floor to ceiling. 

We went with a white penny round (not yet installed) for the floors.