Monthly Archives: November 2009

We can hardly believe we are getting to the point of having rooms and areas finished in the apartment.  We’re thinking we’ll be moving furniture in this week even!

Here is the picture of the hallway, coming into the apartment:

And here is one of the bedrooms, with the exterior pocket door to allow for more space:

Here is the same bedroom, with the painted wall.

We’re having some plumbing work done tomorrow, to install a water heater and the lines to the laundry, as well as updating the shower and faucet fixtures.  All that we’re waiting to put in is the kitchen cabinets, but those will come with time and funds!

A couple of weeks ago Madie asked if she could come over when we were ready to mop the floor upstairs.  I am certainly not above turning away help, especially when said help has offered to clean up dirt (and accepts Red Vines as payment).  This afternoon I picked up Madie and we headed over to the building to make that upstairs floor shine.  We picked up tools and garbage and boxes and bubble wrap and threw out that which needed to be thrown out and kept that which needed to be kept.  Then we each grabbed a broom and swept the floor upstairs, and down the stairs into the hallway.  Filthy.  Dusty.  Ah-choo!  Then came the good part – the wet mop.  Or at least, a Swiffer with a wet cleaning pad on it.  Scratch that.  Not just one wet cleaning pad – make that Six wet cleaning pads.

In the picture you can very easily see the line of where Madie has already cleaned, and what hasn’t been done yet.

While us gals worked on the floors, Justin hung the bi-fold door to the closet.  Three doorways done, two to go.

Phew!  It has been a busy week.  Between working forty hours a week, showing the house a couple of times, and baking for a birthday party, I have had little time to take pictures of the apartment, much less blog about it!  So here is the great room as of this afternoon.

We are getting CLOSE!  Justin has been working on trim and hanging doors this past week.  The electrical work is finished (Hooray! No more work-lights!), and carpeting is down in the bedrooms.  Today was spent painting more baseboard and trim, windowsills, etc.  Putzy, time-consuming projects that still make a big impact.

We’re hoping to start moving things in as the week progresses.  We’ll see how far along we get!

A picture of the great room upstairs, less than a week ago, all taped and mudded:

A picture of the great room in the apartment today:

A picture of one of the bedrooms upstairs about two weeks ago:

A picture of the bedroom today:

I really wasn’t sure if painting was going to make a very big difference, but boy, was I wrong!  I can’t even imagine what it will look like once the flooring is installed!  So exciting!

A huge thank you to Jonathan and Jane and Abi, Jim and Madie, John, Paul, and Nancy!  You all made the day a great success, and we got so much more accomplished than we could have imagined!

Justin showing off the view from the roof!