Nice and Trim

So while my brother and I were working on getting the outside painted in preparation for inspection (that man worked like crazy while I did my day job - we couldn't have met our permit deadline without him), my spouse was working like crazy on the inside trim. He did a beautiful job, and we think the windows turned out really nicely. We're especially happy with the way the sill turned out.

Now that our permit's complete, we're doing a couple of side projects to prep for the next round of ripping out the den. Right now my spouse has been working on building a cabinet for our tools, so we don't have to keep moving them around the rooms as we work on them anymore.

I'll post more pictures when the cabinet's complete, because I think it looks good and will be really useful (especially since we can't build our shed yet).

Next up, while the spouse works on the drawings for the next permit, my brother and I will paint the interior window trim (white) and measure/install/paint the crown moulding. Then it's time for the bookshelf, and hopefully we'll have that all in by Thanksgiving, so we can rip out the den in early December.

Siding Sojourn

As you know, we've passed our final inspection, and we're really, really pleased with the way everything looks. So, this time, we're going to go through and show the progression of the siding, from start to finished product. When we get the insides closer to finished (more moulding, trim painted) we'll do the same thing there.

Rear of the house (south wall):

Side of the house (east wall):

And here are a few details pictures that we liked:

Finally, the siding is finished, and we think it looks nice.

You can't really see the work we did on the siding unless you walk around the side of the house - it isn't visible from the road. Which is bad, because we think it looks so sharp, but it's also good because then our patchwork house doesn't look more "Frankenstein" than it does already.

We'll post more later this week!