Cabinets

Cabinets arrived yesterday. The took over 1/2 the foyer, part of the dining room, and part of the living room. David says they'll start going in tomorrow. I was happy to see the green sticker which said basically that it conforms with the CA 2012 law on formaldehyde content. These are from Aristocratic, based out of Washington state.

Bedroom windows

It was pretty difficult matching the trim with rest of the house, but I think David got it pretty close after many trips to lumber places. All of the window and door trims are done now. They will paint after the wood floors get done.

Bathroom tile

Bathroom is tiled. Needs a day to dry and then they can seal/enhance/grout. They also have the trim up on the windows. Tile is Halila Limestone. The floor has a border that has small squares of different color stone. You can't see it yet because its under that pink paper. The floor also has heating under it. There wasn't a good place to stick a heater duct without building an ugly soffit in the family room below, so we went with the heater thing under the floor tiles (it's called WarmUp Radiant Floor Heating).

Granite

Finally found granite for the countertops and island. 2 slabs.

Walls

We passed the city inspections of the rough on Monday. Our structural engineer wanted one more tie down though (and the chance to send one more bill as well I suspect).

Anyway. Walls are going in finally. Sheetrock installation is extremely noisy and we're in for more serious dust when they start the mudding and sanding. Once that is done and dry, we have about a week of hardwood floor installation.

I also ordered tile for the bathroom this week. It will be a creamish color Halila limestone in 18x18 with 1x1 on the shower floor. There will also be a decorative border around the floor in tiny stone tiles that are more reddish and brown mosaic. For some reason, I forgot to take pictures at the tile store. Oh well, it should come in pretty quickly.




Skylight in closet. Still needs to be ordered and installed. Pretty sure the rain is done until like November now.

Jackson. He turned 11 this week.

More indoor shots

View from the new family room (french door is on the right) facing back into the kitchen.



Little wall here is part of the kitchen island.

All of the electrical rough in is done and the inspector approved yesterday.

This is where some big flatscreen TV who hasn't been purchased yet will live. Or maybe we'll just keep the black box wall mount thing and Santa will come.

This coming week should have the building inspection and the plumbing inspection. Once both of those are signed off on, the insulation can go up and the drywallers can come in and close walls. That will take a couple of weeks. After that, floors (another week) The cabinets should be here July 2.

Outside shots

Outside is mostly done. The deck looks small in this photo, but it's actually pretty large and will be able to fit a pretty big table.

View from the deck.

Backyard is full of construction materials.