and then we were done

Wow here it is May 8th and we are finally done.
OK let's be honest there are a couple of little things still outstanding but really....... we are done. We hope to find our pots and pans this weekend so that we can cook our first real meal. We can hardly wait. I will post pictures in the next couple of days so stay tuned.
Please feel free to drop by and check it out. It as an absolute thing of beauty.
Hope to actually see you soon
Margaret and Susan

finally some "Stuff" is DONE

So finally we can say one sub-trade is completely done. Yippee we thought that would never happen. Thursday we came home and the tile backsplash for the bathroom was complete. That was the final piece of tile work to be done. They had come earlier in the week and completed the tile behind the stove.
Hey the stove is in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So is the fridge and it is even panelled

Friday morning the tile guys came back and sealed the tile and grout in the kitchen and grouted the tile backsplash in the bathroom and with that, their work here is done. The only outstanding item is the sealing of the grout in the steam shower and they don't do that it is a "specialist" that comes in. Apparently it is a particular type of grout sealer that is required because of the steam. The last thing we want is to worry about mold so we are content to wait. That should be next week (fingers crossed). The good news is that one sub-trade is done and we are one step closer to completion.

The plumber is also done (we think). The shower head is installed, the dishwasher is hooked up (can't use it yet as there is no panel on the front so no way of opening the drawers), and the doodads for the steam shower are installed

Keith, the cabinet installer was also here Thursday and now most of the doors and drawer fronts are on. A few still outstanding but closer than we were for sure.

We really are ready now to have our house back.

More work gets done

April 9th

We came home to more cupboard doors installed and even better news the pocket door and new back door are up. (pictures of that soon)

It seems like that took forever. Things are happening. We are now past our origianl completion date but maybe soon we will get our house back.

And then there were doors (at least some)

So we came home today and the cabinet guys had been here today and had begun to install the doors on the cupboards. We can hardly wait till they are all done. As much as we have gotten used to the open concept we are ready to put away our stuff behind doors and get back to living in our house not camping.

Tiling

The tile guys came today and started to install the backsplash. As it went in we were truly astounded by it. We saw the tile, we saw the plan, but seeing it come together. Boy this is going to be one beautiful kitchen

Casings

So we had some windows replaced and today the "guy" (David) came and installed the casing around them. We thought they looked good before... now they are stunning
Hard to believe this is the ugly window outside the bathroom, isn't it?

A taste of how we are living

So we have had lots of questions about how we are making out in our makeshift kitchen and we realized that we had not given any of you any idea of how we are living.

Well it is a treat. We have our kitchen (and everything that entails) in the dining room. We have the cooking station, the coffee station, the prep station, and of course the clean up station. In addition to all of that we also have the "beauty regime" station which lives right beside the "cleanup" station. It may not be pretty but it has lasted this long.