November 7 post

We're a week away from our projected completion date. I don't think we're going to make it. |A more realistic "move in" date might be December 15. There has been huge progress made but, again, we're reminded daily of the scope of what we've undertaken. Even when we don't see things happening at the house, we know that we have a crew of people in a workshop working on cupboards and an island for the new kitchen. The heavy equipment arrived yesterday and started carving out a new driveway for us. Again, I'll let the pictures tell the story of what's been happening around here lately:

Bentley supervising the construction of the new pergola. He approves.

We finally have drywall. It's actually starting to look like a room again. You can see the recessed part of the ceiling. That will have tin tiles in it and the kitchen island is positioned directly underneath.

Behind all that cardboard is a fireplace. We're waiting for the stone facade to arrive. The patio doors like nice but they're the wrong ones. They only open on one side and we ordered ones that open on both sides. Unfortunately we never noticed this shortcoming until they were in. So, they have to stay there until the correct door arrives.

This sisters are installed and working away. They look very different than the giant boiler that was their predecessor.

Before the renovation we had two heating zones in the house - the kitchen area and everything else. Now, you can see from the zone valves on the wall, we have ten zones (there's one more to the right that you can't see in this picture).

The tile arrived for the bathroom vanity wall and top. We can't wait to see what that's going to look like when it's in place.

The new driveway is taking shape. You can see the laser leveler to the right of the photo. We didn't realize how much slope there was on the land until they had to level it for the driveway. Aaron (our landscaper) and I are getting all kinds of great ideas with this new perspective.