The end is in sight

We are reaching the end of our renovations.

The wood floors have just been finished a few moments ago.

Here is the living room:

(This picture shows a better example of the color, but in some of the pictures, the flash makes it look a little pale.)


It was hard to choose a color that went with our mixed colored furniture, but I'm happy with it.


This weekend, I visited friends who just bought a newly remodeled home a few blocks away.
It had gray laminate floors, gray walls, and an all-white kitchen, which is the trend.

It looked great, but we didn't pick those colors, because it just wouldn't go with our stuff.
We're just not that modern!



The cat is happy to have a clean place to lie down.

For a while the bedrooms had things piled up in them.

My drawing room was not usable for many days.

The workers used it to store their tools, and the closet doors.

My bedroom was done today.

Here you can see the color the walls ended up:

Also, the different layers of the floor: The finished floor in the foreground, the thin layer of blue foam, the plywood underneath, and the old dirty tile in the back.


We can't move things back into place, however, until the base boards go around the bottom of the walls.

We have to wait for the person who painted the indoors to do the baseboards.
It's very frustrating to have to wait!
Today was another day off I could have spent putting things back in their place.



Meanwhile, the exterior of the house is being covered with a coat of primer.

We picked a light blue with a white trim.

For awhile today, I was afraid the primer was the finished color!