Delays

Although this past week was supposed to be all wood floor finishing, in reality, that did not happen. The weather was so humid last weekend, then it got cold and then it got rainy. They are trying to acclimate the floors to the proper percentage moisture (whatever that may be) and the floors aren't there yet.

So...we don't know how many more days have slipped. An email was sent on Tuesday officially adding a day, but then nothing happened with floors the next 2 days, either, so...not really sure. They know we want to move on May 10. Or, I guess I should say, they know we want to be back in the house by May 17  (which marks 20 years ago that we purchased that house).

Cabinet hardware arrived and has been stationed with each item in the house, but the finish carpenter has moved on to another job...but he met with us yesterday, so he knows what goes where (there are a few oddities in the kitchen - a smaller handle on a base cabinet and horizontal handles on pull-outs). He should be back before the project end date, so no worries there (yet).

The cabinet-maker also met with us yesterday to take a base cabinet that is too big for the island and remake it into a bookcase, since all of the "parts" we ordered from KraftMaid to make a bookcase had finally arrived. All of the replacement parts for the damaged KM cabinets have also shown up, so the final cabinet install (with different contractor) is scheduled for April 28.

Then the granite fabricator will need to develop a template for the island top and get it made and installed. I don't know whether we will make the May 2 handover of keys. We're still hoping.

For those in the neighborhood, sometime in the next few weeks, the exterior will get painted, too. We gave Steven the colors yesterday, and no, neither is any shade of TAUPE (or baby-poop, either)!

On a Moving Forward note: 
We happened to be at the Home Depot Pin Oak store a couple of weekends ago when they were having their annual Rug Event in the parking lot. Having discovered a few days earlier that the Ten Thousand Villages 100% hand-knotted wool Pak-Persian rugs we have are too small for the dining room space (the colors of which were planned around one of the rugs), we decided to look through the appropriately-sized rugs to see if we found anything that we liked - which we did. Here is our new (shh! machine-made, polyester) dining room rug. That is a dining room chair and a leaf from the dining room table on it.

T minus 3 weeks!

As you might well imagine, we have been very busy lately. Jobs, yards, gardens, house remodel.

While the remodel of 5206 was originally scheduled to be completed this coming Good Friday, various delays (weather, damaged product, back-ordered product, delayed ordering of product, expansion of scope, change in island plans) mean that we are about two weeks behind. The latest schedule has us tentatively getting keys back around 5/2.

The first coat of paint is on all of the walls and we are pretty happy with how the colors have turned out overall, once we got the correct Kelvin temperature light bulbs in each location to show off the colors correctly (once light fixtures were installed). All paints are Behr Ultra Premium Plus, though some colors were color-matched from others' paint lines.

Entry way in progress (Biscuit and Rich Navy):

Laundry room in progress, and, yes, those walls are all different colors - laundry should have something to make you smile-the 4 walls are the 3 bedroom colors plus the study color (the wall you don't see in the picture):

Front bedroom (guest room) aka the Garden Room or "Go soak up some happy in your happy green room" (60% Bonsai Tint). This room overlooks the front garden:

The kitchen cabinets are installed, the granite countertops are mostly installed (one section needs to be replaced yet), we have light fixtures every where finally, the appliances were installed last week, and the bathrooms are mostly completed and have plumbing trim outs finished, etc.

This week, April 14-20, they will sand, stain, and top coat the wood floors. We added painting the exterior of the house to the scope once we decided that we were close enough to knowing what color we wanted it painted. So exterior painting will commence the week of April 21 while they finish up inside (and hopefully the kitchen island and granite can get done this week, too) and clean everything up and have final inspections.

Then they will finish coat the room walls, install the washer and dryer, and we can move back in! We're planning to move around May 10, though we haven't yet done any packing. We'll move somethings ourselves (clothes, dishes, etc.) as those are easier to toss in a car and drive down the block that box up.

But, that's where we're at these days.