Exterior painted... just in time to sell

Stucco repaired; decorative shutters removed from front door; prepped for paint

Painted!

New address plaque!

And yes... we're moving... again. But not buying.

Some [mostly] final pics

BEFORE: Dining area (we kept the light fixture)

BEFORE: View of kitchen/dining wall from entry way.

AFTER: Dining area upper right. Old built-ins removed. This is the view from the entryway. Still got some painting to do.

BEFORE: kitchen wall

AFTER: No kitchen wall.

BEFORE: Old fireplace & living area

AFTER: Kitchen wall gone. New fireplace. Planning to move the TV into the "green room"

BEFORE: Family room (popcorn ceiling)

AFTER: Family room (+ new laundry room), raised ceiling - popcorn removed.

BEFORE: No laundry room. Old lower ceiling being removed.

AFTER: Laundry room framed + wall for mounting TV

BEFORE: boys' bathroom

BEFORE: boys' bathroom

AFTER: boys' bathroom. rotated shower.

View of boys' room from doorway; new curtains half done.

BEFORE: Master bath

AFTER: Master bath. Not the most recent pic, but it'll do. We swapped the sink/toilet.

BEFORE: Master Bath shower stall

AFTER: Master bath shower stall. Again, not the most recent - there is a glass door on it now. It may be hard to tell, but we closed off the door to the hallway, so the angle this is showing is where the old door was in the pic above.

OMG Love

I'm thinking we may actually have some livable space by the time we intend to move in, in less than 2 weeks.

First of three coats to refinish the floors. We opted for the clear coat and I'm pleased with the choice!

A little bit of chaos, but here you can see: wall oven, microwave, dishwasher, faucet, hardware - installed!

Close up on the back splash. I am in love. It was a risk, but it works. Bold, but a great choice for Santa Barbara living.

Here's the bead board back splash to make this look like furniture. Kind of thinking it needs bead board above the shelf, too...

More chaos. there's a cook top under there.

An alternate shot of the sink, etc.

a little less stuff cluttering the view...

Just more pics

Master bath. Walls look more blue than they really are.

Master bath shower stall. Still needs a glass door.

There's actually a shelf now installed in the middle. We're doing beadboard "back splash" to make it look like furniture. My inspiration can be seen here: http://www.houzz.com/photos/101168/Buffet-traditional-kitchen-minneapolis

Framed

So that's the family room up there.  Ceiling joists in and laundry room (and/or future potential half bath) framed. Look at all that ceiling height we're gaining!

Guest/boys' bathroom. Yay for indoor plumbing! I am in love with the floor tile. You can't tell, but it's a pale gray with an almost linen-like texture. Very interesting stuff.

Our contractor very generously offered to center the sink, no extra charge. I had it nestled against the wall in the plans, but it just doesn't look quite right. Unfortunately, what you can't tell from these photos is how nice the sink top is. It's a sparkly white quartz - very cool.

I think the kitchen counter tops will actually get installed tomorrow! I need to figure out the back splash....

Small changes

Things at the house either seem to be slowing down or there's just more to be done than I thought. They are taking care of some of the less "glamorous" stuff like moving heat ducts, patching drywall, sealing tile.  But everything is important. Fortunately, we do have this bit of eye candy above - limestone tile floor being installed! Here's hoping there's enough tile because I've not been able to get the 360flooring.com website to load for weeks and suspect maybe they've gone out of business. Yikes.
Of course, what's also visible here is the microwave trim, apron front sink, and crown moulding.
Other updates to report: tiling in the bathrooms is done. I've put a first coat of paint on the walls, so they should be installing the fixtures shortly.
The ceiling in the big family room is in progress.
And the counter top is now scheduled to be installed next Wednesday (after some annoying delays by the manufacturer, which resulted in my choosing a slightly different color material.)
We move in next month!

Progress everywhere

So actually, I screwed up. missed a little part on the cabinet order where it said "perimeter white/island brown." It was supposed to be brown island AND brown hutch piece over there on the left. So it's all white. But I'm not beating myself up over it.

Somehow sometimes it feels like we move forward and it looks like there's more to be done. I'm feeling rather anxious about it all, but mostly it's just the prospect of carrying rent + mortgage for one more month. Probably, we can be done with that after September. At least, that's the goal.

Repairing the hardwood.

Here are some new shots of the oodles of progress to be seen...

Ran out of hex tile :( I should've known the order was wrong. Oh well.

Oooh, niche...

I wanted to be a little more bold/fun with the boys' bathroom. I think I covered that. The tile guy has his work cut out for him with the grouting for this surround!