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 down on Friday (my day off).  I got the final coat of paint on the walls and ceiling so that we could finish up the electrical in the bathroom Friday, including hanging the new light fixtures.   All that is left now is to put in the last 3 pieces of trim (rosettes and top piece of trim over the door) and prime/paint all the trim.  Then plumbing!

Trim installed

Lights installed. And yes that’sa new patch that has to be painted that we saw after the light was in 🙂 Always some touchups.

The vanity temporarily set in place so we could figure out baseboards.

Our contractor built a new archway at the top of the stairs, removing the old one that was in a less desirable locaton.  Then he started framing out a linen closet that we’ll squeeze in at the end of the hallway next to the chimney.  I’m very excited about this closet!  Ryan also removed the last piece of wall that was next to the old chimney we removed.  So next up is starting the hallway floor repair work.

Linen closet!

New archway

Our neighbor came over Friday and started taping the front livingroom, all seams are done except the vertical corners so that’s coming along quite nicely!