It's been a long time since I posted anything, but politics has only grown worse.

Well, Tuesday we move in - finally.  We're pretty happy even though we leave the family home of the last 31 years.

 

From the family room.

 

From the dining room.

 

 

From the porch.

 

Cherry top for the dining table.

 

Garage door and driveway edging.

 

 

Granite, Corian too in the bathrooms.

 

 

Glass for the doors.

 

Pencil molding, linear shower drains and homely LED ceiling lights.

 

 

The porch is screened.

 

 

Trees are coming.

 

 

And our first big uh-oh.  The warped shutters will have to go.

 

 

Bluestone going down.

 

Cabinets going in.

 

 



Painting doors in the garage.

 

Fit the shutters.

 

 

Cool hidden shutter hold-back.

 

 

Structural fiberglass porch columns - who knew?

 

 

Paint the driveway on the grading.

 

 

Choices, choices, choices ...  What dimmer switch do you want?  And then, do you want it LED compatible?  Oh, then back to the dimmer selections.  It never ends.

 

 

Gutters are up.  Color close enough.  Nice detail craftsmanship.

 

 

 

Shutters up and driveway poured.

 

 

I guess we're getting closer.

 

 

 

 

Progress seems slow now but the oak floors are down, the trim is being filled, sanded, lacquered, sanded again, etc.  They will paint soon.  The site built cabinets are build.  There is a mountain of drawers in the garage waiting to be painted.

Yearend will pass without completion.  The builder now says mid-February or March 1st. Floors get finished Christmas week.  Cabinets go in the first week of January.  We still need a driveway.

They built the porch closet and did a really nice job.  Builders work in mysterious ways or at least ours does.  Who can say why the closet didn't go up with the walls but when they fix stuff, they do it right.

 

 

The retaining walls just need the cap now.

 

 

The Bluestone has been delivered and will go down soon.

 

 

The bathroom tile will also go down [up?] soon.

 

 

Meanwhile we still have 20 or 30 years of our 50+ year collection of stuff to get rid of.  Then there's a house to sell.