Another great weekend of house progress.  Our contractor and our neighbor were over Friday and Saturday, they got the sheetrock finished in the diningroom (the part we can do), the first round of taping in the upstairs hallway (and stairwell!) finished and the archway in the livingroom stripped the rest of the way!  Woohoo!

Upstairs hallway taped!

This is the ceiling from the ground floor.

Then the real fun began.  Ryan started working on the window trim in the livingroom.  Saturday he made all the window sills (he actually made 2 for the diningroom too!), then he made and installed the filler strips, then installed the side pieces of molding and the window aprons on Sunday.  The tops couldn’t be done because the rosettes had to be stripped.

Window trim! And you can see the arch here too.

Check out all those windows just waiting for rosettes and top pieces!

Which brings us to my participation.  I stripped all the rosettes for the livingroom Sunday afternoon (that was 12 total) – fun stuff 🙂  So many left to go though still!

And my final participation this weekend was getting the crown molding sanded in the kitchen, ready to be primed.  I also finished sanding the trim in the back hallway around the doors.  The mini hallway outside the bathroom still needs sanding but I ran out of time.

Crown is sanded and ready to be primed!

Another little project got completed as well, the outlet in the microwave cabinet cut-out got in-set (Ryan cut out the piece of cabinet and sheetrock so I could install the outlet back about an inch).  The means the microwave fits nicely now (the plug sticks out so far the microwave wouldn’t fit nicely.  So now I just have to wire that outlet to the panel box and paint and install the nice trim we have for the outside of the cutout.  Then we’ll have our microwave installed permanently as originally planned.  Can’t wait!

I’m hoping to focus on finishing the kitchen as much as the front livingroom.  Our main goal is to have a playroom, finished kitchen and almost finished? front hall before Alex’s birthday part!  We’ll see!