OKAY! Dropping in to share huge progress from the past few weeks (which is good; our moving truck arrives with our stuff on 6/28!)
First let's check in on the veggie garden (here's how it looked in April!) So healthy! We are going to hopefully be drowning in tomatoes and tomatillos this summer.
And the pool is coming along! They completed the waterline and retaining wall tile last week. There will be steps on either side of that sharp drop off (there was some confusion between sub-contractors on that but thankfully it's happening.) We picked flagstone coping to go all the way around the pool. We got a peek at that last week when the tile guy was there and it's going to be beautiful.
Inside the house the new wood flooring is installed! We had the downstairs flooring replaced to match the wood that was already in the fireplace room. (Shown above cleared out and ready for stain!) The downstairs is all white oak planks and the upstairs is red oak. The treads of the staircase are also red oak.
We decided to have it all refinished the same way and are using Verathane Western Oak stain. (The top right swatch above.) It's a bit dark with a touch of gray/green undertones and I am so excited about it.
Above you can see it on the red oak stair treads (it's the second step).
And then it's the left swatch above on the red oak upstairs. This is in a darker corner of our bedroom and you can see that in some lighting it does go really dark! I LOVE IT THOUGH. It's going to be a major change from what was there AND from our current San Diego house.
All of the drywall was completed in early June and the electrical is in place. My dad has been painting the ceilings and walls Clare Paint's Whipped which is a warm white. (Eventually we may go with different paint colors but for now, white is a nice fresh slate.)
My dad also installed the crown molding in Ellerie's room and it finishes the space so well. I ordered butterfly sconces for both girls that will hang by their beds as reading lights. So sweet right?
I found a marble slab (40% off because it was the last one) last week that we are hoping to use in three different areas of the house. With the right cuts it's going to work as the primary bathroom vanity countertop, the countertop in the laundry room, the island top and the window bench top in the eat-in kitchen. (I know marble "ages" and I am okay with that.)
The last update is my very first project, the powder room, is coming together! My dad hung a light (it works!) and the mirror I found on Marketplace last fall is going to fit perfectly. We are just waiting for the floor tile (hopefully it arrives Wednesday) to go in and then my dad will install the sink and toilet and we will have a...completed room! Amazing.
And that's the update! It's chaos! I am reminding myself that the "goal" is floors and walls. Everything else can and will be worked on while we are living there. We can't wait.
