some other random pictures...

Laundry closet doors (sorry for the crooked photo...I think the heat is getting to me)
One of the finished bedrooms....
Starting to stage the house a little...
and the deck finally has a second set of stairs

counter tops!

Counter tops were installed today and they look great! It is hard to show you all the detail of the cool veins of color in the granite...but I tried! We can now finish off the kitchen entirely buy wrapping the column. After that, a few little touch ups and it goes on the market next Monday! Anyone want to buy a cute house in Portland??

project of the day...the deck

We still have a few boards to cut to curve around the tree but we got most of it done.

Sorry for the crappy pictures, between me and the streetlight and dust, my camera wasn't up to par.... I will take some tomorrow in the daylight

From mud pit to putting green

This is the front yard yesterday...formerly a mud pit now a dry desert of weeds...



This is what I did today...especially fun since it was delivered at 6am this morning. So basically I have been lugging these rolls of sod from the crates to the wheelbarrow then unloading them and rolling them out for the last 6 or 7 hours...by...myself...

Doesn't it look pretty?? all 1300 feet of it.... I am exhausted!! Time for some wine :-)

Floors are dry

The new mailbox
The floors are dry after their poly coats and now we can put up base moulding

Updates...it has been awhile...

This is the how the floors looked when we first got the house...
They looked very beat up after we took off the sticky tiles and stripped the glue from underneath them....


Here we had just finished sanding them...


They are now stained and waiting to dry enough to put on the clear poly coat...but I think they turned out pretty good....

We had the gravel delivered today and I had to rake it all out...


Finally as promised...here is the front door mounted and the hardware...