Warning! Picture heavy entry!

We have entered the phase of the remodel I think is best described as “Zeno’s Paradox.” Stuff keeps happening, we’re definitely approaching being finished…without ever actually getting there. I am beginning to despair that I’m ever going to live in this house, just when I’ve discovered that the remodel is completely and totally excellent and I really WANT to live there.

On to the house:
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I haven’t been keeping up with the remodeling changes here on this blog, because they’re coming fast and furious now. It’s beginning to look like an actual house. If it starts to look any more like an actual house, I may move in much, much earlier than originally planned.

The cabinets are in! The wood floors are in (and hand-scraped, and stained, and coated with whatever they coat hardwood floors with). Lots of interior painting and staining and what have you is happening.

This is the current front of the house. And…this is pretty much what it’s going to look like (save some wrought-iron work that needs to be added, and lights.) The plaster is up. The color is great. We are loving the look of the house.

Here we see one wall of the kitchen. The big hole is where our fridge will be going. Since this picture was taken, the island has been installed, so it looks a little more cramped now.

The other side of the kitchen L. The space is for my range, still sadly unpacked.

Just to the right of the above picture is the pantry/built-ins corner. For example, the built-in china cabinet.

And the pantry. This is one wall of the pantry. The other wall is shelves from floor to ceiling. Yes, my pantry rocks.

One wall of my office. Just look at those bookshelves. If you have to have built-ins, make them gorgeous, you know?

The other side of the office, a.k.a. the side I’ll look at every day.

Most of the cabinetry (shelves, cabinets, bathroom vanities, etc.) looks like this:

The painted stuff looks like my office. The stained wood (like the doors, or the windowsills), will look like this:

Yeah. ROCK.

This house is going to be great. I CAN’T WAIT.

Okay, this isn’t really from July—I think most of these pictures are from June—but I’m posting it now. Deal with it. You may familiarize yourself with changes from March’s posting before continuing on, if you like.

Biggest changes: we have drywall! And stucco! And lots of canned lighting installed in the ceiling!

And here is the front of our house, all nicely stuccoed, although not as of yet plastered. (Last week they put up two sample plaster patches for us to choose, and one was clearly the right one. Of course, I do not have a picture of this.) I myself don’t care for the roof tile arrangement, but I’ve been told that I’ll come to enjoy that as one of the key features of the remodel.

A closeup of the front steps—concrete and stucco oh my! Those red bars sticking out are going to connect with the wrought iron railing that’s going to be installed. The bit of wiring sticking out at the lower left will be for lighting that will be installed.

The front door. Isn’t that molding cool? Also, the rafter tails above it? Well, we certainly think so, and we’re paying quite handsomely for them, so I certainly hope we like the look.

More of the front of the house, with a detail of the porch railing. Again, wrought iron will be installed in the middle of the U.

The kitchen. If this were a more recent picture, you’d see a gigantic crate on the right hand side, underneath the stove ventilation hood (and doesn’t that look like it’s going to be cute!), and that gigantic crate contains my new stove. Which weighs 700 pounds, so I don’t think you should try to steal it.

The living room, not yet drywalled like the rest of the house. That large white rectangle marked “TV” (actually marked “Clay’s TV,” after Clay, who’s been working on the project almost a year) is a mockup of the TV we’re going to have hanging there…in all three dimensions. The architect didn’t believe we could have a TV that is that thin; we told him that living in the future is really cool and he’ll like it a lot. The fireplace chimney frame has also been installed, but I don’t have a pic of that.

What posting would be complete without a look at the stairs? Well, actually, the stairs haven’t changed too much from last time (except there’s drywall!). Those wooden railings are going to be replaced by wrought iron…but other stuff has to happen first, like the floors need to be installed.

And that’s it for this month in our house remodel!