Deconstruction

Significant progress made in the kitchen, and while there are a few loose ends to tie up it looks like everything will come together nicely, and it has been very nice being able to live in the kitchen for the past week or so. Remaining items include a new trim piece around the top of the cabinets to cover the gap, and replacements for several of the damaged countertop doors. There are also a few other stragglers, like installing a vent cover for the register above the kitchen door, and putting a light above the kitchen sink…Duane supposedly ordered the former, and we have ordered the latter.

They worked over here a few days last week patching drywall, etc, but left the latter part of the week to let us ’settle in’ and their plan (as of five days ago) was to return tomorrow (Monday) to begin the demo of the hall bathroom. So we’ll be giving the ‘new’ bathroom a full test, and keeping our fingers crossed that we won’t have to return to the community center to shower.

We came back two days after thanksgiving and primed and painted the trim, which seemed to go on for miles. It is all now white, and looks good except for a few nail holes and gaps that need to be filled in. David said that when he paints trim he really ’slops it in’ but I’m not sure any quantity of wet paint would have filled some of the gaps.

We’re now trying to get used to the countertops, for the first several days we were afraid to set anything directly on them that wasn’t 100% cotton, but we’re slowly coming around.

We spent a few hours this afternoon putting a coat of paint over the primer in the kitchen, mostly the same Melange Green color, and the back wall an attempt at a brown color that turned out more purple and will be re-done in a day or so. The walls look really nice now that there are no pencil marks, etc.

The other pictures include one of a new dining room table that Jill found in Tulsa on one of her business trips. We drove from Springfield to Tulsa and back the Friday after Thanksgiving with random chairs dangling out of the open back window of her Explorer. Getting it into the house presented another exciting challenge but once in place it looks great. There is also a shot of our new barstools, delivered from across the pond courtesy of eBay. It’s a small world after all.

Wish us luck with next week’s disruption…as dusty as ‘phase 1′ was, I have a feeling that ‘phase 2′ will be at least as challenging as the room being destroyed is across the hall from where we sleep. Hopefully they will have some creative ideas for managing the level of airborne debris.

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