Everyday It's a-Gettin' Closer

So...good news: our cabinets are IN. "In" as in, in the warehouse, ready to be delivered to our house. However, the kitchen is not QUITE ready for them. There still isn't a floor. I've been balancing on floor joists (horiztonal beams, unequally spaced) to get to my laundry room. How's THAT for talented, eh? I can walk across them WITH a full load of laundry in my hands! You might say "why not lay some ply wood down across them?", well...we don't have a large enough piece of ply wood...we tried using multiple small pieces of the old floor we tore up, but I found that to be more dangerous than just walking on the joists. Weird, perhaps. But it is so.

Anywho. My husband has been working very hard to get everything ready. As mentioned in a previous entry, this house is a can of worms. We COULD'VE ignored the big can we found---old and dangerous wiring throughout the house---but instead, he re-wired EVERYTHING properly, and "to code". Sure, it took extra time....but would I rather my house burn down due to bad electrical? No. No thank you. So I am very proud of my "do-it-all" husband for learning how to do that. Saved us a lot money (by not having to hire an electrician). And saved our house from potentially burning down.

Now, here's the plan: this Saturday with the help of a few other guys, we plan on laying the sub-floor, and getting the walls ready for cabinets. While the guys are doing that, Becky and I will be painting all the 3rd floor doors. They come in an off-white color from the store....but all of our trim on the 3rd floor (and eventually the rest of the house) is bright white. We will also hopefully get the touch-up painting finished in the bathroom, so we can hang our ginormous mirror, and the other picture.

Then on Sunday we hope to start tiling the floor in the kitchen (which will take a few days). Then we can have our cabinets officially delivered, and then we'll install them. And THEN, if all goes according to plan (which usually doesn't happen), our appliances will be delivered NEXT Saturday. Which would mean we'd have a fully functional kitchen in 10 days.

We shall see if that really happens lol. In the meantime, I'll post pics this weekend of our progress. There WILL be progress...of some sort :)