...and that's pretty much what they did. With our being out-of-our-respective-townses this weekend, we'd left a worklist with Tim, Dave, and dog and rode away with our fingers crossed. I must say that I'm generally pretty pleased with the progress and I can now officially move this house out of the third world. Seriously, it's pretty legitimately 2nd world and half at least (or would it be 1st world and a half?).
Figure 1. RUNNING WATER INSIDE THE HOUSE!
A mini-backsplash has also been installed that I'll need to add a couple coats of polyurethane to, but that's easy-peasy.
But, before I get much farther, I feel I need to explain myself for why I've abandoned my crew as we near such a critical point in the construction. Allow for the defense to submit Exhibits A-C, shown below as Figures 2-4.
Figure 2. That's a layered lemon cake courtesy of a Mrs. [BH] Steele
Figure 3. ...a modified blueberry business type of cheesecake thingy courtesy of (another) Mrs. [MA] Steele
Figure 4. My favorite (not to take anything away from the others), from one of the aforementioned Mrs. Steeleseses. There are too many Mrs. Steeleseses and one of them wasn't even present. It's getting confusing keeping track of all this and I'm related.
I feel as though these exhibits at least demonstrate that my presence was required, dare I SAY REQUIRED elsewhere for the weekend.
But, back to the action, with the house now comfortably nearing first world status with conditioned air, outhouses moved INSIDE, and running water (it loses points for still being tied into Orlando's nastyfied city water, but still...) we're beginning to put finishing touches in place. Beginning to finish, yeah right.
The guest bathroom tub is almost been completed. New tiles have been installed (they still need grouting), but I think it looks great. The juxtaposition of the old and new tiles here is an effort to remind the future homeowners of both the old-world-charm of the house's 1950's roots while at the same time offering reassurance that we've designed with a modern touch. Very sophisticated.
Figure 5. Seriously fancy/deep design work
Correction, the whole tub and enclosure's going to be re-glazed. It's not going to stay with six white tiles. They should all be white by the time the chemical people have come in and taken our dollarbucks for the re-glazing. Should look nice. We're still going to replace the handle with something a little less 70's.
In the kitchen, the crew continued with some trim work. The door has been framed in, the window has returned to look like a window should and some trim pieces were installed on the cabinets. Yeah, I'm shotgunning this to you, but I still have to run an errand or two before Sunday's over.
Figure 6. Door framed (yes that's hardiplank!)
Yeah, so that's framed with Hardiplank, but lucky for me and the boys, the wife (hi Wife!) wasn't here to veto and frankly there aren't that many options with the thicknesses we were needing.
Figure 7. Window-FRAMED!
I don't even want to know all the crap they had to do to get that window framed in "properly" because that wall was not even close to straight. Yeah, there's a joke opportunity there, but like I said, I'm rushing. You can also see the subway tile backsplash is nearing completion (needs grout). I think that looks pretty good, too. We've removed the switch for the overhead bar lights, too, because we've eliminated the bar. As a result, I think I'm going to have them put in another outlet there to allow for maximum-kitchen-appliance usage! Meh, it seemed the best way to utilize the double-box, that's all.
On the other side of the kitchen the guys finished installing the shelves and running the backsplash tile. I also think this looks good, though I'm not sure if we should tile behind the shelves. Part of me thinks it looks a little weird without it, but then again, if it DID get tiled, it wouldn't match the window-wall. Seems like a lose-lose so since it's less work to go without and just paint, I expect that to stick as-is. You can let me know if you think that's an awful decision, though I'm sure our realtor (is that spelled right, because I'm getting the red squiggly underneath) will disagree with umptee-three of our decisions. Oh well.
Figure 8. To tile or not to tile, I think that was Macbeth's real question
That about wraps us up for the weekend, hopefully Publix hasn't closed on me yet. ADIOS!
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