Sunday, May 4, 2008

Not much done on the house, but the Pens won!!!

The painters were supposed to start on the interior of the house this week, so we were surprised and a bit disappointed to see that they hadn't even started. We also figured that the brick would be finished, but they still have quite a bit of work to do.

The fireplace is in, however, and they ran the pipe up the chimney.

They had to cut into the drywall in order to put in the chimney pipe - curious that they didn't work on the chimney before the drywall went in. This hole was cut in DH's closet...
And these holes were cut in DD's bedroom walls...
DD still has a view of the river from her bedroom, but it is quickly becoming blocked by the leaves on the trees.
It looks like work was done on the roof over the front door this week and that will hopefully stop the leaks that had developed inside the house.
Here is the office/guest room end of the house. The outside is actually coming along nicely...
The back still isn't finished. The area over the garage and the upper 2 floors of the angled wall still need to have brick added...
The patio side of the house and the back of the garage are done...
And here is a shot from the end of the garage looking toward the patio area...
We've been working our tails off on this house so that we can get it on the market. I finished DS's room, the guest room, all the bathrooms, the dining room, and the laundry room. I still need to dust and make sure the beds are made and dishes all done in the morning before our realtor brings the other agents from her office here on their "caravan". On Thursday, she will have an open house for agents from other real estate offices. The only room that still needs work is the playroom in the basement. There are some bookshelves and game shelves down there that really need to be straightened up and packed up, but that can wait a couple of days.

I haven't figured out yet where we'll go when someone wants to show our house. Perhaps for a walk? Or maybe to hang out at Ice Cream World? Hmmmm....maybe both of those!

I just finished baking chocolate chip cookies to mail to DD for finals week - can you smell them?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

MMMMM, cookies!