Post#12 - Bostonian Doors

Good morning everyone,

Wow, we've been working on this project for 12 weeks already. Thank God we are almost done. I'm looking forward to going back to work. I've missed my students.

This week we completed the installation of our 4 Bostonian doors. Three of them are already varnished. I still need to varnish Julianne's door. Yesterday I installed all the casings, baseboards and mouldings in the hallway. Last night we bought some door handles which I will install tomorrow. The next picture is one of our hallway.

Hallway

Unfortunately our counter top is still not installed. We are hoping to have it in by Wednesday at the latest. I will need to do some plumbing in order to install the sink and the dishwasher. 

We also have our natural gas range connected. I'm looking forward to cooking on it. We hope to have our Christmas supper in our new dining room. Have a great week everyone.

Post#11 - Kitchen Table

Good morning everyone,


Last week I got some very good news about my job. I am returning to my beloved school, Northern Secondary as of January 9^th. I am so happy and I'm looking forward to working in my community once again. The kids are also very excited about this as dad will be much closer to home.

This past week we did a lot of little jobs in our kitchen. I installed the water line to the fridge on Monday. Adrien was quite excited as now he can get his own ice and water and believe me he is drinking a lot of water. I'm also happy because I will now have a constant source of ice for my rums. We also installed our chandelier that goes over our kitchen table. We have the same chandeliers in our recroom in the shop.  The next picture is one of the chandelier. Louise finished sealing the grout on the tiles.

Chandelier

On Monday we received our kitchen table. It is made our of wormy maple and was custom made for us by The Cutter's Edge.  They are the ones that installed the cabinets in our kitchen. They are simply awesome. Our table extends at both ends by 18". We bought 8 ladder back chairs to go with the table. The next pictures is the table in our dining room.

Table

I also started removing the mohogany doors from the various rooms upstairs and installing the Bostonians doors in their place. The biggest part of the job is not the installation but the varnishing of those doors. It takes me about 6 hours per door to varnish. So far I've installed 3 doors and have one left to go. I hope to install the last one on Monday.  I hope to finish varnish and installing mouldings, baseboards and casings by the end of the week. The next pictures was taken in my shop where I'm varnishing the doors.

Doors

We hope that we will receive our countertop by the end of the week so that next week we can move back into our kitchen. The gas for our oven should be installed by mid-week. I have about a day's worth of work to install the plumbing for our sink and dishwasher. The next picture is our project so far. We are almost done. Have a great week everyone.

Project - Week#11

Post#10 - The Cabinets

Good morning everyone,

Wow, I've been on my parental leave for 9 weeks already. Time is really flying by. This past week we finished up a lot of little jobs. We grouted the hallway tiles and cleaned the haze on the tiles in the kitchen and dining room. I stained the moulding on the North wall and painted the heating grill and air intake. Louise sealed the grout in the floor and I sealed our cultured stone on the North wall.

We finally got our cabinets installed. The installers were supposed to come in on Wednesday but ended up coming on Thursday because of a snow storm. The cabinets look awesome as you can see in the next picture. All that we are missing right now is our quartz counter top. We should get it installed in a couple of weeks.

Cabinets

On Saturday we received our appliances. So far I installed the fridge and microwave. This week I want to install the water line to the fridge and get the natural gas installed to our range. The next picture shows our kitchen with some of our appliances installed.

Appliances

This week we are supposed to receive our Yukon table and finish installing our cabinet lights. In addition we are getting a corner basket installed in one of our cabinets. I also hope to install the chandelier that goes over the table. It's going to be another busy week. Have a great week everyone.