Whew! This week is almost over! It's been BUSY! (I'm going to be putting the last several days worth of info in one post tonight.. yeah, the week has been that busy.. lol)
Monday came along and the electrician was on-site, putting up the light fixtures. We dropped them off at the site Sunday night so he could start right away. When we got there Monday evening they were all up (not all of them had light bulbs in them yet tho).
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| living room |
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| Rachel's room |
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| Lyndsey's vanity |
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| Lyndsey's room |
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| Rachel's vanity |
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| tv mounting bracket in the living room |
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| kitchen |
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| half-bathroom |
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| dining room |
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| entry foyer |
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| den |
That same day the carpenter was working the stairs and some other details.....
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| wood shelf in the nooks |
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| half-walls in the living room |
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| pantry door |
Tuesday had the carpenter back and hard at it again....
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| living room half-wall columns |
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| loft overlook onto the entry foyer |
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| overlook into living room |
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| Lyndsey's window seat |
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| Rachel's window seat |
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| stairway to basement |
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| looking at the kitchen from the living room |
Joe had put up scaffolding so that the decorator (Debbie) could put up some of the decor for the Parade that is up higher....
The landscaper was out and dug the trenches for me to lay the drain pipes that will take the water from some of the front downspouts out to the ditch so it's not running across the lawn all the time..
...so I was out there until it got dark, laying about 140 feet of drain pipe so that when the landscaper showed up on Wednesday he could backfill the trenches and install the lawn.
While the landscape crew was working all day outside, the flooring installers began installing the carpeting.
Also outside, the gutters were finally being installed as well. They were supposed to hit the 3 drain pipes I'd laid with three downspouts...... unfortunately, they didn't do this. So they're going to have to come back out to redo one of them and the builder will fix the other two.
While all of that was going on on Wednesday, I'd taken the day off to also be at the site doing landscaping too. I had mulch to move, dirt to level, landscape edging to install, and a few areas in the back yard to put down grass seed and fertilizer.
Today (Thursday) the flooring installers were hard at work finishing up all the carpeting installations.....
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| the den |
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| stairway |
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| master bedroom |
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| living room |
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| Rachel's room |
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| the loft |
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| Lyndsey's room |
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| basement stairway |
Pretty much the only thing that is scheduled to go on tomorrow is that the rest of the appliances will be arriving later in the day.
Robin and I have alot to do over the weekend in preparation for the Parade the following weekend. We have mirrors to hang, things to plant outside, I have to finish spreading the mulch/wood chips pile in the back yard, and several other things.
The cleaners will show up and clean the house from top to bottom on Saturday and Sunday.
Then on Monday, the painters come back thru and do any last touch up work, the carpenter still has a couple details to finish up, and the inspector will come thru to do a final inspection of the house.
In the mean time, I'm hoping it keeps raining more often now that our lawn is installed and craving water.. otherwise I'm out there twice a day moving sprinklers! lol!
Paul
