team has been busy the last couple of weeks - floors complete but not finished yet. Sad that one of the installers had the saw kick back and he lost the tips of three fingers. Reminder than construction is a dangerous job. - all the final grading complete and round 1 on landscaping with the hydroseeing done for the lawn. - installing clapboard continues despite the unusually cold and rainy spring. - Wall painting has begun. We think we have all of the colors decided and a few rooms have their first coat on. - cabinets arrived and are being installed. Found a couple of problems. For some reason they put the silverware dividers in the bottom drawer of a cabinet. The crew is going to flip the cabinet and reinstall all of the hardware so it will now but @ the top. - tile is well underway. - all the window sashes are being painted - closed on selling of our existing house yesterday. We will be renting back until July 29 so we now have a drop dead move-in date. We won't be completely done but hopefully it will be move-in-able. What's next - throw-away coat on the floors to protect them. Should give us a better idea what they will look like finished. - interior trim (windows and doors) - interior doors - painting of all rooms so we can see how our color choices work (or don't) together. Here is a link that might be useful: Updated pictures

Re the aspect of purchasing locally or by internet; my husband and I are still on the fence around Blue Star, principally because of the lack of local availability. We last checked into this 2 years ago, so we need to update our information. (We went with a different stove that time, a much less expensive Bosch. I have to say that cooking on that Bosch was not a great experience.) We have 2 "local" dealers, each 2 hours away. Both are reluctant to service our area and too cheap to pay our local serviceman. Unless the last two years have changed their tune, we can't/won't purchase from them. So, there might not be a local option for many people, because it's not a well-marketed product. Diva

I'm not guilty (yet) but will be because a few items will be outliers. I'm working on a family room, entry hall and formal living room also. The big items in the family room are the ceiling and doors The big items in the kitchen will be the backsplash and pantry doors, plus me figuring out what to do with a regular sized fridge in a Subzero sized hole for the time being. Holding up the entry hall and formal living room are the entry hall flooring, new front door/sidelight, and grasscloth wallpaper. On top of all of this, the tenants are moving out of our ~1920 foursquare on 8/1 and getting that turned around and ready to rent will be a super high priority. But on the plus side, there's another kitchen thread out of it! Anyone who hates cheap early '80s kitchens will love this. It seems as though the work is never done.

But you still have a tv on top of a fireplace. I don't think there's a thing in this universe you could do to make me like the tv mounted on top of the fireplace. Also, the huge mirror looks unbalanced up there to me.