Winter wonderland

Most of the stucco work currently in progress is nearly finished - just in time to protect the house from the snow! Backyard is now covered in a sparkling 2 feet of snow. And the city doesn't actually plow streets, at least not any around here, luckily the buses make a bit of a path...i guess we're stuck waiting for it to melt...

Updates

Showing the kitchen at near completion...has been in this state for months and probably will remain nearly finished for months to come, always too much to do! The smallest bedroom is also almost finished, and is the first room with baseboard, amazing how exciting that is to me! And the living/dining rooms are coming along, partial electric is in and some insulation is up. Hope to drywall soon.

Backyard Fence

The new fence really changes the feel to the backyard and I love it! Managed to plant a fig tree and two arborvitae this weekend.

Base kitchen cabinets

After returning from a great trip to the UK we are back to work. We've purchased and put together the remaining ikea cabinets. The doors for the upper cabinets and the handles have all been installed. We've also decided upon and purchased our tile for the countertop and backsplash. Now we need to get all the bottom cabinets aligned perfectly and figure out the plumbing for the sink so we can start tiling.

Under cabinet lights

John hard-wired (while I held in place) our lights for the kitchen cabinets. Wiring lights has become a fairly simple job for us now. We put up basic fluorescent lights - it puts out more than enough light, and we will have trim along the bottom so they will never be seen.

medicine cabinet

We finally installed our bathroom medicine cabinet. This was really a trial run for the ikea cabinets as it is also from ikea. The trickiest part is hanging the doors, partly because the screws are cheap and bend easily so you only get a few chances to make adjustments before the screws start to weaken.

The Kitchen Cabinets

Our wall cabinets are up!! I must say I am very impressed with our work today. We had to shim the cabinets quite a bit at the end (farthest from the corner) but our end cover panel fits perfectly so it's just fine. We still have one more cabinet to attach next to the corner cabinet. It's a small open shelf cabinet and we haven't decided how to best attach it to the corner as it doesn't come with the open holes the other cabinets come with. We still have to attach the doors and put in the shelves, but the hard part is done.