KITCHEN DONE, MOVING ON TO BATHROOM

The kitchen has been completed and we put up our first Christmas tree over the weekend.  Here are some pictures;

 While the butcher block serves as a great countertop currently, we decided that granite was necessary at our hopeful price point and it will be installed next week.

I spent the last week refinishing the floors in the front half of the house and rebuilding the fireplace in the living room.  Here is a “work in progress” series of pictures that show the fireplace being built- you can also see before and afters of the floor in the front area of the shots;

We also finished off the rest of the windows and the house is about 50% painted.  The painters spent a few days block filling the brick, primed everything in a tan color, ran all of the soffits/vinyl in white and put one coat of finish on the brick.  I am hoping the weather cooperates and they finish this week- we still need another coat of brick finish, a darker color on the foundation & porch and all of the windows need to be cut in;

I am hopefully going to start the bathroom demo today and I figure the renovation should take about a week.  After the bathroom we are hoping to move on to the basement/laundry room unless the weather is beautiful and I have an opportunity to put up the back deck.