Indoors Mickey spent a bunch of time in early December working on the trim for the arched window in the upstairs loft. In order to get the wood to bend so dramatically he glued and clamped a dozen or so slender pieces together. Here is a picture of what it looked like when he was working on it.
This is the finished product; it's hard to imagine how one gets a huge piece of wood to bend, but somehow Mickey pulls it off and manages to make it look easy.
Tons of other trim work has been happening in the house during the last month. The windows, doors, closets, and base of the walls are all trimmed. Most of the baseboard comes from the oak from our lot, and that will be stained. Peter's room shows the finished trim ready for stain and paint.
Mickey has been working on the stairs lately. He began by planing the stair treads that Sawmill John kiln dried for us using oak harvested from our lot. He has been putting those in place along with the posts and railing. This is a view of the stairs from the living room looking at the front entry.
Peter checks out the progress and makes sure the edges are all nice and smooth.
A close up of the arts and crafts style newel post.
Vic finished all of the bathroom and mudroom tile jobs a couple of weeks ago. The master shower has white subway tile and a pinwheel accent to match the floor; the color in the photo is a little off, but the marble threshold matches the counter.
Granite and marble counters were installed in mid December, and we're thrilled with the choices we made. I say this because Sean and I are possibly the most decisive customers the showrooms have ever seen. We spent about 30 minutes picking out tile for the entire house and five minutes at the different showrooms for the two granite stores we used. This sometimes makes me nervous about how it will look when it all comes together, but so far we've come out on top.The master bath vanity has a beautiful gray marble counter, and the floor has pinwheel tile with dark grout.
The granite in Peter's bathroom has little blue flecks that work well with the paint and tile accents; we lucked out finding it as a remnant, and it's one of the many design elements in the house that ended up working better than we imagined.
The tile accent in Peter's bath is finished and ties in perfectly with the colors in the room.
In the meantime, Sean has had a blast picking out electronics for the house, and he spent an awesome afternoon at Leon with our good buddy Ethan, a co-owner of the company, picking out speakers and talking stereos. Sean and Ethan have really outdone themselves, and we're eagerly awaiting their installation so we can rock out at our next party.While we had hoped to move in by the end of winter break, we're now looking at late January. This is also the time of final exams, so we'll see how that timing works out. We're lucky to have a very comfortable house to live in and not have to vacate, so we'll happily stay there rather than move into a construction site!
