Kitchen, Diningroom and Livingroom progress

This weekend was full of progress on various things.  Friday our neighbor taped the diningroom (the part we can tape) and our contractor started on the cofferred ceiling boxes.  On Saturday they both were installing the boxes and we have the sides on for most of the boxes (just the bump out part is left). …

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Window trim!

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! Then …

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Taping

The front livingroom now has all been taped, our neighbor got out of work early yesterday so he came over and taped the vertical seams.  Moving along nicely! It’s great!  Our contractor is here today, working on the upstairs hallway floor project this week.  After this week we’re hoping he can commit to one-two days …

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Ryan mini vacation

Ryan was able to take a long weekend, taking Thursday and Friday off this week (new year!).  This means house progress continued, especially since our contractor and neighbor were also here working! Ryan got a good start on the trim in the bathroom, each piece had to be made except the rosettes which I stripped …

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