Building the stairs and railing and installing the light fixture

 The cork floors are now exposed and the stairs are built. They are working on staining them, which is proving challenging. We'll get there though with another coat or two.

The light fixture and ductless air system in the mud room are installed now too!

Inside, there's still paint touch-up work to do and staining a patch of wood flooring, but that's about it. Next up is the back yard, which still looks like this...

Such a busy month!

In addition to work on the house, I've have four works trips and we've been out of town for three weekends since Memorial Day, hence the lack of posts since June 1st.

The project is actually wrapping up, at least on the inside of the house. Even more work has been done since these pictures; hopefully that progress will make it online in the next few days.

Here's some progress the master bath:

And outside, things look practically finished (except for landscaping) now that brick is on. The brick on the addition is a blend of old salvaged brick from our house and new brick. Apparently new bricks are smaller than old ones, so all the old bricks  - approximately 1,000 of them - had to be cut to match the size of the new ones.

We also have back porch lights again!

And inside the nook, the plastic wall came down, giving us our first glimpse of the full open space next to the kitchen. It's great!

Cork floors are in and the stair railing is now in, though this picture only shows it partially finished.

Lots of pretty pictures!

Things have been very busy around here with four work trips and a short vacation in the month of May for us. But, we're seeing lots of good progress, so here's lots of pictures of the latest work. Since the last post, walls were sanded and painted, siding was painted, shower and bathroom floor tile were installed and grouted (except for a small section to be done tomorrow), subfloor went into the breakfast nook, and an HVAC return vent got removed and patched with oak flooring in our kitchen.

Here's progress in the bathroom:

 We had to patch the floor because we removed the tub.

Shower floor:

Woohoo, plastic is gone! It's not functional yet, but we're close!

The glass door is on order as well. It should be here in ~2 weeks. In the mean time, we may just stick up a shower curtain...as soon as we have a shower head...so we can start using our bathroom again.

And here's progress in the nook and mud room:

 They still need to stain the wood where the air vent was removed.

Here's a piece of the new cork flooring for the addition, next to the existing kitchen flooring.

Brick was also delivered today, which was a huge success, but a boring story, so I'll spare you the details. Masons were here earlier today to start laying out the brick and it should be in three days from now.

Stair parts are also in so it's time to finalize stain colors, and tomorrow the plastic wall separating our kitchen from the construction comes down.