Three Objectives for The Week

My apologies for the lapse in posting over the weekend. Michael and I headed to Arizona for the weekend. It was nice to get away from the house for a while and stay somewhere with central air and glass windows. Fancy.

Now that we are back, it has become ALL HOUSE ALL THE TIME. What will I do with myself when the house is finished? What will I lay awake thinking about in the middle of the night?  We started the week focused on three things:

1) Begin the install of the hardwood floors
2) Get the cement poured for the garage footings
3) Demo and re-tile the other guest bathroom downstairs

1) Sunday night, the floor guy stopped by the house with samples. It only took me a minute to determine that the white washed oak was the right choice for us. It does not photograph well, but here it is none the less:

Like I said, it is hard to tell from the photos above. It is a pale matte finish and I think it looks great against white and one of the better options to compliment all the existing maple in the house. The Floor guy took some final measurements and produced a final bid. We gave him our deposit and just like that, the wood was ordered and is likely being delivered to the house as I type this. By the end of the week, I might have (partial) floors! Over the next couple of days, he will be under cutting the built ins (above) so that the floor can slip underneath and look like it has always been a part of the house.

We have been warned that the undercutting will be messy, but he will use a condensed air pressure something or other to blast all the dirt out of the house. The finished product will be a cleaner version of the house than we have ever seen. Cleaner than when we originally viewed the house before putting in an offer.

2) The garage is coming along, although we are in the boring stage of footings. We passed the inspection so they can pour the concrete, however there is a rain in the forecast so it has been delayed. Once those go up, actually garage looking things can get done. Like walls, and garage doors.

Grage with temp walls

3) There is a lot of progress being made in both the master bathroom and the 2nd guest bathroom downstairs. I will post pictures later this week when the "After" photos are ready. We have all the supplies on hand for the guest bathroom so that will happen first. We will be waiting until the end of time for the fancy marble tile to arrive. Estimated end of October. Yikes.