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Kyle got the doors painted and installed.

Then he was able to clear out the garage so I can park in it.

We found some curtain hardware to hold the curtains open and got them installed on the dining and living room windows.

Kyle and I hung our wall hanging that we bought on one of the floating islands of lake Titicaca in Peru.

Kyle hung this cabinet that he built many years ago.  

I installed all the doorknobs (well, Kyle did a few).

Kyle swapped out the switch for a sensor for the lights on the stair treads.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any sort of ambient light sensor so the stair lights go on ALL THE TIME, even during the day.  We're going to have to fix that because it drives me a more nutty than it probably should.  :)

See- lights on in the day- every time anyone or anydog walks by.

The kids found their old toothbrush holder in the bath toy basket (they also found the bath toy basket).  Luckily my nearly 12-year-old son doesn't mind the jungle animal theme in their bathroom.  

We hung some shelves in J and A's rooms, above their beds so they'd have somewhere to put their clocks and lamps and Magic the Gathering cards.

Today my bathroom mirror came.  I love it.  I'm really glad we went with a custom mirror instead of just buying the biggest mirror we could find.  Especially since the plugs would have made that option difficult.

More Electrical Work

We didn't get pictures of everything today, but Kyle solved a few wiring issues, finished up the fans in the bathrooms, and most of the rest of the lights.  I put faceplates on.  I've done all the ones that are low enough for me to reach so there's just a few high ones in the house, and the ones in the garage that aren't done yet.  Kyle also wired the back porch lights, the fan on the back porch, and about half of the lights inside the garage.  He also did the front porch and garage door lights (which I did get pictures of).

New lights at the garage doors.

Front door.

Close up of the front door lights.  The garage lights are the same, but bigger.

That's me on the porch.  

Insulation and Drywall

Kyle finished up the electrical last week, and the next day, we had the 4-way inspection, and a few days later, the insulation was done.  That same day, the drywall was delivered, and the framers came and covered the south wall with plywood (something to do with how much glass in on that wall).  

These are all kind of out of order, but here's looking up into the cooling chimney.  The exposed joists will be wrapped and painted to match the trim.

Standing in the kitchen, looking out to the living room.  The dry wallers only did the ceilings on the first floor on saturday.  Hopefully they'll come back on monday.  

The garage ceiling.  This picture also shows how the exterior wall insulation looks.  It's a plastic sheet, then they punched holes in it and blew in some sort of cellulose fill.  It's pretty cool.  Interior walls have the regular pink batting.  The insulators also sprayed foam in any cracks to seal the house up really well.  Joints on plywood, electrical boxes.  They were pretty thorough.

Cement in the Garage