Laying some tile!

Niko and his dad laid the porcelain tile in the kitchen. It wasn't easy, they were dealing with what really used to be 3 different rooms, so getting it level was a challenge. However they met the challenge, and the floor is looking great. I sanded the doors down and on Sunday Andrea and Dahlia came and helped me clean the basement and put together cabinets.

Halfway there

We installed the bases for the cabinets so they could be tiled

Dahlia and Andrea were great at assembling cabinets!

Officially Moved, unofficially homeless...

Well, our furniture has moved into our new house. Unfortunatley we haven't. We are crashing with the inlaws until we can paint the walls and polyurethane the floors. Hopefully we can kick it into high gear. There hasn't been any apparent progress in the past few days and it is hard on the morale.

Hatim wanted to make sure we didn't forget to move the m'urses

Stuff in the living room.

Stuff in Smurfland (3rd floor)

More stuff in unfinished half of 3rd floor

Kitchen with concrete board down

Just Snap It In...

Right.....
I spent 2 hours last night trying to install a recessed accent light fixture above the fireplace. "Just connect the wires and snap the clips into place."

After destroying the hole in the ceiling, I ended up liquid nailing the piece of crap into the drywall. I hope I never want to take it out!

Aaahhhhhhhhh!

Halfway there....

Drywall is in, we sanded the floors... it is starting to look like a house again

View 1- Front Hallway

View 2- Kitchen

View 2b- Kitchen other direction

View 3- Living room w/ new ceiling

Sanding the floor in the bedroom

Demolition

What a mess! It is a good thing we had help.

View 1 - Front hallway

Kitchen

Demo with Demos

and Jen!

House "Before"

Here is how the first floor looked when we got the house. We have been busily working away- progress photos to come in next post.

View 1- Entry Hall

View 2- Kitchen

View 3- Living room

"Front" of house- actually faces the driveway