The last of the finish carpentry (I think)

The headers above the doors on the main floor were installed today.  Don't they look great?

Front door.

This window in the cooling chimney was installed awhile back but I can't remember if I took a picture of it.  The drywall people will have to come back and fix the drywall now.  It was supposed to be two windows, but we weren't able to get two windows with motors attached so we had to improvise.  There will be a switch to open the window and a fan to pull the hot air out of our house in the summer.

More Finish Carpentry

I'm kind of wishing we had done two of these special baluster panels per section, but I think it will look better when it's all painted.

Handrail going down an the wiring for the stair lighting sensor.

Big newel posts.  :)

Handrail on lower section

This is just to show a little bit of what the trim looks like.  I like how wide the baseboards are.  The headers for above the doors aren't ready yet.  In the basement we're just doing plain trim all the way around but upstairs there's something a little fancier.  I can't wait!

I didn't know there was going to be a big post at the landing in the stairway, but I like it. You can see the stairs all finished too.  The stairs, if you remember this far back, were kind of a joke for us because they were one of the last things the framers put in.

This is the little storage closet we ended up with in our closet because the hvac didn't take up very much space.  I am not in love with the pieces of wood put in to make the "adjustable shelving" here.  I think we'll take it out and find something else a little less clunky looking.

Trim around the storage cubby.  Hopefully someday we'll be able to add doors here to keep my year's supply of TP, soap and shampoo out of sight (although it's behind the door, so it's kind of hidden already.

Closeup for Kyle's benefit, of the wiring for his light sensor.

View of the railing from the front door.

This is where we throw the kids over if they're being naughty.  Eventually there will be a half wall bookcase here for my recipe books and whatever else.

Finish Carpentry

Master Closet.

 Cubbies in the master closet.  The other closets are all done or nearly done, but it was too dark to get good pictures of them.

Kyle has been painting the garage- just with one layer of primer, nearly done.

Interior doors and trim work.  Most of the trim is simple, but upstairs we should have some that are a little fancier- we noticed that the finish carpenters put the basic stuff up there too, so hopefully we get it fixed.

Basement hallway-all the doors in place are making it seem so much more real.

 The lower section of stairs has the new treads and risers.

Electricity and (a little) painting

We have a power meter.

This is the only time is will read 00000, because today Kyle hooked up the furnace and a couple of plugs, so now our furnace isn't being run off of an extension cord from my parents house.

Because we're so far away from the street we have this (box in the ground) transformer.

Kyle wired two plugs in the storage room so that we could plug in a vacuum, a light and a radio.  The two lights show that it's wired correctly.  Phew.

Vacuuming the dirt in the storage room.

First coat of paint in the storage room.

Hopefully two coats will do it.  The cement is pretty bumpy.

In other news, the drywall is done, and we've met with the finish carpenter.  He'll have a bid for us by tuesday, and after he gets started he'll be done in three days.  Then we can paint everything, and lay tile.   After several days of snow, it cleared up today, and I stood in the house in front of the windows and enjoyed the warmth.  I could almost picture being moved in, it's getting closer.