Woops

This is an un-advanced ventilation system :( 

We had stored extra pieces of plywood in the attic and while getting them down Josh stepped through the nursery ceiling. So we have a nice big hole to patch! Any volunteers?? :)

Finally Here: Spiral Staircase

The staircase is in!!! It is so awesome to have it in, I'm really excited about how it turned out. I was originally kind of nervous, because I've never seen a spiral staircase in a house before, (other than in the movie My Fair Lady and I don't think that counts) and especially not one in a house with eight foot ceilings. But I was pleasantly surprised and pleased with it :) The Frogges came over and it took the guys about 7 hours to build and install it. I think it went fairly smoothly, no major hiccups, but just time consuming. It's super nice to be able to just run up the staircase and not have to climb up a ladder and then kick the freshly painted wall as you haul yourself up to the floor. We are making so much progress on the house. It's great to see it all come together.

Stair treads, though I think they look a bit like flippers. Maybe a little heavy for that purpose though. ;)

Marking the four "corners" of the staircase so they can center the pole.

 Putting up the pole

 Looking a little short...

 Putting the aluminum handrail on.

From above

Lol, this one is a little out of sequence! This is what the handrail looked like before it was installed, the guys had to unwind it form a circle and then twist it up the staircase.

Until the next update,

Josh and Rebecca

Paint, Flooring, and Deck

I have been so busy this last week I haven't even had time to blog about the house. A week and a half ago, the sheetrock guys finally finished texturing, and I broke out the paint buckets with great enthusiasm on Saturday, the 1st . With the help of a lot of friends, we were able to get the entire house primered, ceilings painted and all the rooms almost totally done in one week! I have to do one more coat on the office walls, and I haven't even started on the garage, but we have made a ton of progress.
The weekend I started painting, Josh started working on front porch and it looks awesome!! He has five more boards to lay down, and steps to build, but we will be concentrating on the inside for now and do those in a while.
This last week and weekend we started laying down flooring, and we're almost done. Hopefully we don't run out of flooring, but it's looking like we might. :( It's pretty unfortanate, because for one, the place were we buy it is an hour away and we have to borrow a truck and trailer to pick it up, but it also took us a month and a half just to get the thousand square feet we have gotten. So waiting another month and a half sounds kind of grim. :/ But it's still great to see progress and we will stretch those floor boards we have as far as we can :) 
This week and weekend are going to be great... once we finish the floor or run out of boards, we're going to start installing electric fixtures, switches and plugs. Also, this weekend we hope to start installing the spiral staircase.
I'm a little nervous about how the staircase will turn out, but I'm sure it will be pretty cool. Enjoy the pictures!

I couldn't find a finished picture of the porch, I'll have to take one later. It's looking cool though!

 

The house from the side. I love how it looks :)

 

 

Trying out paint, stain and countertop samples

 

Whew...sheetrock dust! The stuff hangs around forever! But beneath it all is an installed floor :)

 

Our bedroom. The angled wall is our closet, and the room on the left is the sitting room. It's impossible to tell in this picture, but the ceiling is the same color as the sitting room.

 

The office

 

Until the next update,

 

Josh and Rebecca

 

 

 Trying out paint, stain, countertop samples and colors. The brick is one of the ones we are going to use on the dining room wall.

 

 

 Sheetrock dust and saw dust everywhere, but a picture of the installed floor.

 

The office

 

Our room. The closet is the angled wall, and the blue room on the left is the sitting room. It's impossible to tell in this pic, but the ceiling is the same color as the sitting room.

 

Until the next update,

 

Josh and Rebecca