Renovation Update: Rapidly Losing Patience

So - whichever week we're on now - is it 9? - seems to have been the turning point of my patience. I could handle the cooking outside on the grill in the middle of the night - but now every little thing is driving me crazy. Sadly, it looks like we still have at least one more week to go. End is nearly in sight, but not close enough.

In the kitchen - they finished installing all the cabinets, and started putting on trim. They also hooked up the vent hood.

cabinets in, hood up

more cabinets

Upstairs - the big progress was getting the tile started. They put down the floor in one day, and then most of the shower walls the next. They will be finishing up the walls and then grouting today - so that room is getting close to done now.

shower tile

Another fun development is the door to the new linen closet upstairs. So far, we've been able to reuse old doors everywhere, but we didn't have one for this new closet. The contractor got quotes for a replacement door - $1000 for it to actually look like our others, and $200 to be white. Since none of the other doors in that hall are white - i thought it would look silly, and there was no way we were going to pay $1000 for a door. So, we went to this 2nd hand building supply place, found a perfect match that was exactly the right size, for $15. They begrudingly framed it in.

new linen closet door

 I guess the other big progress this week was me starting to put the house back together. After a couple days at home with a sick kid, I finally lost my patience with all the tarps blocking the doors and hanging down from the walls, so I just took them down. I also started pulling out Christmas decorations, which isn't really on the list of things you're supposed to do during a renovation - but hey.

halfbath gets repainted and put back together

with the door covers gone, cats can now hide under the floor covering. 

 

almost looks like christmas. 

So close. so close.