Sheetrock!

Jim expected to sheetrock on Monday (June 24), and we were all excited to stop by and see the transformation.  Sadly, nothing happened on Monday.  We were sure something would happen on Tuesday, but more sadness.  Nothing Wednesday.  I stopped by on Thursday and saw...

Sheetrock!

 Here's Noah checking out our cool skylight balcony.  It's very, very tempting for kids, but they have been strenuously warned. 

Velux makes a blind for the skylight.  Very reasonable, thank goodness, because a custom job would have been pretty scary.

Met with Kristen on Wednesday for a paint consultation.  2 1/2 hours!  I was cross-eyed by the end, but it was incredibly helpful. 

Met with Steve from Empire Carpet today at the new house.  Empire has a hard sell strategy where they try to get you to sign a contract right then.  Unfortunately (for Steve), this strategy doesn't work if the price is really high.  (I had shopped around already.)  So he got on the phone with his "manager" (not sure if there was really anyone on the other end of that call), and came back with a price that was cut almost in half.  We were kind of stunned, but still refused to sign anything.  Steve's heart wasn't in it at that point, so he didn't protest too much.

This was the third big unexpected price break we've gotten in three weeks -- first was our new car,  and second was the new refrigerator -- thanks to David.  I got the prices, but he told me to shop around for the car and to bargain for the fridge, and it worked!

Here are more photos of sheetrock:

Mud room

Opening to kitchen closed up slightly to line up with kitchen window

Marco taping the skylights

View down the hall toward our bathroom

 

 

 

Our bathroom

Our enormous shower