IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS

It's the little things like:

- beautiful shingles
- a tiny bathtub for one of our guest bathrooms
- new Anderson windows

When I arrived home from my visit to Minnesota on Sunday, February 17, Keith and I stopped at the house to see what had transpired in the last week.  I squealed in delight when we drove up and saw that the roof was almost all shingled (and as of yesterday it is actually completely done!), and our windows had been installed.  We were also surprised to see that the bathtub had been installed in our main floor guest bath.

Yesterday we spent two house with John and the electrician, Brian, determining where we want lights, switches and outlets.  Who knew we'd have to decide so many things like wired or wireless doorbell.  Luckily I have a husband who knows his stuff and I can defer to him on those questions to which, without him I would simply respond, "huh?"

We also made the final decision yesterday on countertops and - yes - we are going with all RED!  Scary but super exciting.  I hope it looks as grand as our vision tells us it will.

WE HAVE A ROOF!

When the roof trusses arrived we were excited but that excitement pales in comparison to what we felt when a week later, after returning from San Francisco, we immediately went to the house and saw that we have a roof!  Lance and Mark (the two guys who have done the majority of the construction) work so diligently as is evidenced by the pictures below.  In fact, we understand that neighbors were stopping by the house on Sunday asking them why they were working on a holiday.  I guess we have some neighbors who love football even more than we do (didn't think that was possible) because I've never thought of Superbowl Sunday as a holiday.

Behold our new roof!

The framing is pretty much complete inside and the sheet inspection occurred yesterday.  The next step is to start to add the two layers of roofing paper prior to the asphalt and shingles so this week we will select our shingles.

Plumbing and electric will start next week and below are pictures of the framing for our master shower and bathtub.

Today on my way to work I decided to stop by to see any additional work and I was struck at the stature of our home as I turned onto Newport.  These are photos I took from down at the end of the block.

And finally - some shots of the front of the house again with our new little porch roof.  What a transformation!

We're still on or slightly ahead of schedule and John shared on Monday that he is hoping for an end of April completion.  We won't hold him to that because he told us 4-6 months when the project started and April 30 would be 4 months.  But we would be ecstatic if were were cozy in our new home in early May!