the home stretch...!

we're almost there. almost there! so close, we can almost taste it. or that could be the taste of windex, fantastik, silicone sealant or other such substance that lingers in your nostrils and affects your tastebuds... not that i'd know or anything.

but yes. we're in the home stretch. really truly in the home stretch.

the kitchen is done, all but for brushing the nice countertop oil on the countertops and getting the grout sealant onto the floors (and hey, you can't see those in a photo, so i'm going to post pics now).



oh, i suppose we also need to get the bathroom door put back on. um, right. details...



but overall, it's looking nice and shiny and fresh. the kids especially like the way they can play on the wide open floor without anything in their way. who needs furniture, anyway?



even the back porch, which was formerly known as "the scary room" and generally a place we didn't like to go (and yes, where we found the cat corpse), is actually nice now. with the ceiling insulation and the big insulated steel door, the heat gain inside there is way less. oh, and now that the furnace doesn't vent directly into the porch (yikes), it should be a lot nicer and, um, safer too.



after marc put on the door, i put down the floor. we still need to get door trim up. details...


so now, what's left? a few more bits. the front porch still needs handrails, and the front bedroom needs one more coat of varathane, and the crawlspace insulation still needs to be done. and a few more doors need to be installed/reinstalled. like, oh, the bathroom, for example.

but we're racing against the clock. we have one more full day to do it all. can we make it?
stay tuned...