Sunday, November 25, 2007

Our hardwood floor was delivered Friday. It's 3 ¼-inch wide prefinished oak boards. Here is a sample of it. The color is "Ozark vista." Some of it looks lighter than what is pictured here, but I think it will all blend together and look OK.
I just realized I haven't posted a picture of the fireplace. The firebox has been built, and now it just needs a tile surround and mantel. Also the chimney is progressing - slowly.


Friday, November 23, 2007




Progress has been slow. I got one exterior door stained a few days ago - the kitchen door. Here it is:


Sunday, November 4, 2007


We are currently working on kitchen cabinets, which, of course, are pretty detailed and time-consuming. Here's a picture of the boxes for the main wall of cabinets. The stove will be at the far end of this section, and around the corner to the left will be the kitchen sink, dishwasher and fridge, with lower cabinets only. We are planning to paint these cabinets, maybe the same color as the ceiling (Rice Cake), which is a light cream/barely yellow.


We have a couple more things done on the house now. Some of the window and door casings are up, and we got our transoms installed. Here are a couple of pictures of trim around the doors in the dining room and living room. We used 4-inch fluted casings with 4 ½-inch corner blocks downstairs (3 and 3 ¾ upstairs). I am going to work on the stain a little more now that they're up and also add a coat of clear varnish. The staining has been a LOT of work. We have probably more than half the casings done now, but we still have to finish those and do all the doors, windows, baseboards and crown moulding. Both the doors pictured here have glass transoms, but you really can't see the glass at all. In the picture looking through into the kitchen, you can see the beginning of the cabinets and also the chalkboard panel door that we got for the pantry.