Renovation Blovations: Just wow.

Finally some major progress. This is the message centre. It's still only half finished, but you can tell what it's going to be.

This is the fixture we chose for the dining room, I know I didn't show you a picture of this. But, honest to Hay-sus, there's got to be some mystery in the this process, doesn't there? They will have to lower this. I think it's raised so that it doesn't get in the way during the rest of this process.

The plumber finished the sink in the Powder Room on Friday before the power was cut. Nice, no?

Grandpa Munster was super busy today, all that virgin blood over the weekend did him a world of good! He finished the lighting in the Powder Room, these are the lights, the cylindrical fixtures are in the nook outside, I'll post a pic of them later.

Here's the EuroCrappierTM. Steve obviously found the toilet seat. Dang, I meant to toss that piece of paper.

Here's the window wall, with the gas fireplace insert installed. The hearth is still to come. It's art deco.

Check these out. Grandpa Munster installed the track lighting on Thursday, and the fan today. The track lighting was supposed to be parallel, but you can see in the vantage here, that it's not. Also the fan wasn't supposed to have the light installed. Not a big thing, but it's just another reason that I WISH that John was back to do the finishing work, because Grandpa Munster doesn't have the passion for detail that John had. It just means more stuff on the 'punch list'

Ok. These are the pendant lights that I posted a pic of a while ago from the catalog jpeg. OMGosh, I love Love LOVE these. They so remind me of the trip M and I took to Italy in 1998, and the side trip we took to the island of Murano, where we saw all that amazing glassware. Thank you Melissa. When we took them out of the box we thought they were too big. But now I think they're perfect.

Here's how they'll look from the side.

Extreme closeup. They have all our colors in them. I can't wait to see them with light shining in them.

Grandpa Munster wired all the appliances today. The Bosch is on the far right there. It's really irritated that it still doesn't have it's cover, which we got to match the cabinetry, but it's European, so that's to be expected.

Here's the Jenn-Air Refridgerator. No extra charge for the fingerprints!

So, not that I am a label whore, but I gots a GE Monogram electric convection oven, and on top there, a GE Advantium oven. Le Sigh! Hey, some folks get off on cars, some are gadget phreeks, I am an appliance geek.

The only diff in this shot is that the plugs are finished.

Tim's almost finished with the deck. When finished it will be able to withstand an F5 tornado, and a 7.0 richter scale earthquake...simultaneously.

Here's the wide view. The trim color is not quite as dark as we thought it would be, it's a light caramel. Very light. See? I like it, M's taking a while to warm to it. He thinks it's too light.