Still making progress

The days are just flying by here, so I'm taking a little time from my lesson planning to post pictures of the renovations as of today. We're in a holding pattern until Friday, when the HVAC person comes to put in the heating/cooling stack from the basement up to the 2nd floor bedroom. The kids have loved having a hole in the floor of the mudporch, where one can stand looking down at the other who is in the basement looking up. Reece even thought he could crawl down through the hole - luckily I caught him before any part of him got stuck.

The windows should be arriving Monday, and then the changes will be more dramatic again for a while. Everything will get trimmed, the siding will be finished, all the electrical can be connected and then the interior finishing can begin. I, of course, already know where I want to put everything the minute I get the OK. Except that we don't even have most of the items that are going into the new rooms, because where the heck would we put them while we wait?? Have I mentioned my bike is in the living room? We are also going to paint the rooms ourselves to save a little money, so who knows when that will happen. Might have to lure Nat and Tara over on false pretenses and then not let them leave until a wall is painted.

Garage door is almond color, and the cedar siding will be stained "mountain ash".

Inside the mudroom, looking out the back door and at the door going into the house (facing north, for those who have been here). There will be a window to the left of the outer door, and below that will be a space heater.

Facing the door into the garage from the mudroom. Being able to enter the house from the garage without getting wet might be the single most exciting part of this whole project.

In the 2nd floor addition, facing north. The door on the left is the existing one into the house from the previous open porch.

Another view inside the 2nd floor room. The master bath is on the other side of the window and will just be boarded over until we redo that bathroom. A fan is being installed in the bathroom since there won't be any other ventilation.

The closet in the 2nd floor room.

And the boys, hanging out in the basement surrounded by folded clean clothes. We fear the Nintendo DS was becoming permanently affixed to Reece's hands so have since instituted a "no Nintendo during the week" rule.