Greg still says it feels like Christmas every morning. He wakes up super early, grabs coffee and walks nextdoor to work on the house. We have a pretty sweet living arrangement right now. Despite the baby ants, the semi-broken AC and the creepy, plastic, moldy tile shower, the house we are staying in is really not so bad, and we live right nextdoor. Many of you had the pleasure of experiencing life in our old house though, so you know we can live pretty much anywhere.
The new house is really,really coming along. The trim that Greg built is almost finished, tiling has begun, Greg is designing the kitchen cabinets and we have someone (and that someone happens to be THE rooster for all you David Sedaris fans out there) coming out to sand and finish our hardwoods in a few weeks.
Here are some photos of this past week here on Van Dyke. Jay is still painting the never-ending but beautiful trim work that Greg and John continue to build. G and his dad, Clark, are putting in the ceiling on the back porch. Greg, Clark and I tiled the laundry room floor in 3 hours last night. I finished grouting it all today and am pretty happy with the results of our first tiling project. We have 2 bathrooms left to tackle using the tiny mosaic hexagon kind, so wish us luck.
building a scaffold for Jay
The construction of the wingwalls of the front porch steps has also started. Here is a quick video of our mason Dan placing the VERY heavy granite on the walls. This granite was salvaged from the same orphanage our slate roof came from.
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LOVE the tile! Can't wait to see what Greg has planned for the kitchen...
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