Progress report --- Week 14

All I can say is: Wow!! Just wow! Wagner warned me that "things will start happening fast now," but I can't get over the transformation. The addition now looks like part of the house (albeit an unpainted, unfurnished part of the house). I'll post a bunch of photos, but I really need a wide-angle lens to show everything off in its glory.

Here's a shot looking into the new shower. You can see the two arched doorways, the first leading into the drying off area, and the second to the shower area. No more squeegee, WOOT!

This is a shot taken from the bedroom looking into the new master bath. The first opening to the left will be the vanity area; the second is where the toilet will be. Shower and whirlpool will be on the right. At the far end is my closet. Note there is a window there... that was the pre-existing window from when this space was our garage, and we decided just to leave it there, in spite of my aversion to windows in closets. ;-) (FYI, the space-age looking yellow thing is a nifty work light Wagner uses... puts off something like 1000 watts of light.)

This is the interior of the bedroom, with the door to Jon's closet at the left and the main door to the bedroom on the right.

Here's a higher shot, attempting to show the vaulted ceilings, but not very effectively. I need that wide-angle lens:

A shot standing from the door to the bedroom looking toward the opposite corner:

Progress accomplished this week:

--Drywall installed in addition
--Brickwork just about finished
--Glass brick windows in master bath installed
--Gutters installed on addition area. Several months before starting the renovation we had put up, at considerable expense, new EverClean gutters that allegedly never, ever need cleaning out. (It probably goes with out saying that Jonathan's and my gutter-cleaning habits are every bit as unreliable as our granite-sealing efforts.) Wagner was able to carefully remove them from the garage and re-use them for the addition.
--First skylight in kitchen removed; new skylight installed. It does a MUCH better job of letting in the light, so I'm glad we went to the effort and expense of swapping it out. We ended up locating it slightly off center so as to necessitate cutting only one room beam instead of four. It looks fine, though:


--Approaching closure/final decisions on tile. Wagner found a new tile store that had a huge number of sample displays up and great selection of trim. I found a new trim piece there that is considerably cheaper than the border I had picked out at Louisville Tile ($8.99 per linear foot compared to $30-something) and looks nearly as nice, so I think I will go with that, and then get the rest of the tile as originally selected.

Obstacles encountered this week:

--Massive indecision on my part regarding humidifier selection. At this point, we're going with the True STEAM, but we're waiting for a callback from the HVAC guys to make sure it will fit okay in the furnace room.