We have a room 99% finished!

We've come a long way since the end of November, when the second bedroom looked like this. We also took three weeks off around Christmas due to the holidays, the weather, etc.

Since then we spackled, sanded, spackled some more, primed, painted, cut/painted/installed trim, ordered carpet, installed the electrical outlets/switches, hung the ceiling fan, and put up the blinds. Here's what it looks like as of this morning:

Before the township comes on Tuesday to sign off on this room, the closet door needs to be painted and hung, and two small pieces of trim need to be added under one of the windows. I also have a few painting touch ups on the walls and trim. Below you can see the closet in its current doorless state.

The walls are Sea Sprite and the door/trim are Ultra Pure White (both by Behr). The ceiling fan is the 44 inch Auberville by Hunter in brushed nickel. Carpet is a remnant that we got from World Wide Flooring. Floor registers are from Signature Hardware's Whittington Collection in brushed nickel. Blinds are 2 inch faux wood in white from Home Depot.

Time for me to grab some paint brushes and respirator and work on the closet door.

Inside work has begun on the second bedroom

If you've been wondering what the addition looks like from the inside, you're finally going to find out. Until a week ago, the inside of the house looked fairly normal. There were some new electrical outlets, a few new windows, and a couple of windows that had been removed, but nothing exciting or picture-worthy.

Last week we broke through the old gable wall in the second bedroom (that's the one in the front of the house, which was set up as a guest room/office). Now when you walk into the bedroom from the hallways, you can go from the existing part right into the addition.


If you head towards the addition part, you can even look to the right into what will be the new part of the master bedroom.

We're hoping to have the second bedroom finished by Christmas, and will move on to finishing the master bedroom after that. I'm also hoping to reclaim my dining room for at least a few days to host Christmas dinner (most of the stuff that was in the second bedroom has been temporarily stuffed into the dining room).