Slow Motion

We are almost (be still my heart) finished with the siding. Glaciers have melted faster than this siding has gone up! In fairness to Jim and Paul some of the delays were due to material shortages but they'd originally hoped to be done by the end of July and they're going to be lucky to finish in August! I think they're just toying with me because I said early on that I couldn't wait to see how the red looked on the dormer over the porch and that piece STILL isn't finished. Maybe, tomorrow?!?! The south side is done though and it looks wunderbar!


The other slow process is the trim work, but that is only because Alan says he can't find helpers that want to work as hard as he does. He makes steady progress every day. Today, Conor's closet got some built in shelves. He'll have double hung rods to the right of the shelves and hooks along the wall in front of the shelves. My hope is that he can at least get clothes as far as the hooks!

Here's a couple pix that if you squint and put them together will give you an idea of what our fireplace will look like! Our mantel will be painted white like the rest of our trim and the slate tiles will replace the white porcelain inset in the picture. We will have some of the wrought iron 2x2 tiles but not as many as they've used on this sample board. The floor tile is very simple, just a black slate.