Kitchen Floor

Now we're cookin! Well, not literally. That comes next week when the cabinets are installed. But the Kitchen and Butler's Pantry floors are down! This is the pre-finished birch from Home Hardware. Today the crew is back installing the original hardwood in the Dining Room. Thanks Lois for the pictures. Looks fantastic!

The fridge is in it's final location, but will be turned to face the same direction as the stove. The stove is in the general final location. The cabinets will go in the corner to the left of the stove.

They installed the flooring right through the Butler's Pantry, and turned the boards 90 degrees at the threshold.

 Beautiful!

 

 

Mom and Dad have Grammy and Grampy's original bed frame from Hopefield, so Dad refinished it last week, and they are using it in their bedroom. The ceiling, walls and floor are painted there now too.

They also painted some doors in the basement. My plan is to eventually have them stripped, but for now it makes sense to clean them up by painting them.

They cleaned the basement bathroom door and put a clear-coat varnish finish on it to preserve the faux-graining, which will remain.

Looking good. The electrician is to be there today to install some lights, and the Dining Room floor will be installed, and maybe get a first coat of clear-varnish. Lots happening! Thanks again Lois

View From The Sky

My cousin Tom is a commercial pilot, and he took this photo with his I Phone from the cockpit. Know where it it?

That's Murray Harbour in the center, and Murray River farther inland, with Nova Scotia in the background. You can almost see the house! Thanks Tom!

No Detail is Too Small

Mom and Dad are having the electrician out to the house at the end of the week to hook up some lights and their bedroom ceiling fan, so we decided the get the exterior lights now so they can be hooked up at the same time. I had lights picked out for the exterior a long time ago, but when Mom, Dad and I were in the showroom in June I wasn't too impressed with what I had chosen and started to think about finding something different. I was thinking of very simple carriage style lamps but this caught my eye last night when I was looking at the Home Depot Canada website. They remind me somehow of the old Coleman Lanterns at the house, so this is what we are going with.

There will be one at the front door, one at the new back porch door, one at the kitchen porch door, and one inside the kitchen porch. I think it is just cute!

Garden Shed

Eventually we will build a small shingled shed down by the old barn foundation, see Sketchup image below: 

But Mom and Dad need storage right now, so they got this shed kit and put it together in the old barn foundation down by the outhouse: 

The thing is, the floor of the old garage has fallen through, and is still filled with tools and stuff. There was nowhere to store the lawnmower or barbeque, and stacked in the Parlour are rakes, storm windows, and a whole pile of things that don't need to be in the house. It has to be out before the work on the floors can start, so they can at least see the floor to work on. So this was necessary to get the floors done, to get the kitchen cabinets in. Everything is contingent on everything else.

Mom and Dad put this together themselves and it looks like they did a fantastic job. It took a while because it has been raining almost every day, all summer.

David planted some Daylilies a couple of years ago and they are starting to bloom. The plan is to grow and spread them around the house as part of the landscaping scheme.

Thanks again Lois for the pictures. I look forward to seeing the place and progress and really appreciate you keeping me up to date.

Yet another Birthday gift!

I am milking this birthday thing for all it's worth but I truly appreciate it, and my friends want to contribute, and there are so many ways to do that so why not!

Dolly got me the bronze outlet receptacle plates for the kitchen to match the switchplates that Cheryl gave me. One more step toward finishing that room. See below:

Thank you Dolly! 7 plates down, 66 to go

Jim & Marcia @ the House

Jim, Marcia, Marcia's son Alan, wife Laura Lynn, and their girls visited the house and Marcia sent me these pics of the girls on the back steps. Thanks Marcia!

Another birthday gift for the house

Our friend Cheryl here in Lincoln has kindly contributed to the house for my birthday. Once the kitchen floor is laid and the cabinets are installed, hopefully within the next 2 weeks, there will be only a few details left to finish out the kitchen, such as the copper backsplash, light/ fan fixture for the center of the space, finding or having built the upper cabinets with glass doors, and switchplates and outlet covers, so she got me switchplates that I picked out for the kitchen. The whole house will eventually have matching. They are hand forged bronze, see below. Thanks so much Cheryl!

Above: This triple switchplate will go on the north wall of the pantry closet and will be for the track lighting, center light, and LED rope lighting in the pantry closet.

Below: 2 of these. One for the 3 exterior lights at the front porch, and one for the LED rope task lights over the cabinets.