List update with 9 days to go

- final coat of sealer on concrete 
- lay rosin paper over basement floor 
- varnish trim (will be delivered, mostly already cut into the right width strips, next Tuesday)
Yes! Done!
- install one more door and hardware upstairs
- install wood floors on upper level and... 
-  ...down stairs to main level (started! Stringers: 100%. Risers: 75%. Runs and landing: 50%. Nosings: 0%)

- make and install extension jambs for windows
- install trim on windows, doors, base and down the stairs
- install trim in laundry room
- hang laundry room pocket door (maybe not necessary before move-in)
- install bathroom sink
- install sink hardware
- install toilet
- install bathtub hardware
- caulk the bathtub
- build bathroom shelves
- install bathroom mirror (which, as Matt's pointing out, is more like design/buy/build/install bathroom mirror)
Took the whole evening, but we got this started tonight! Sometimes the brain work is just as tough as the physical work.

 
- install closet rod
- build doors for the low closet (Maybe. We may just hang fabric on a tension rod.)
- remove window and...
- ...finish opening between old and new

We at least need to finish the floor. The current situation, shown in the photo, has a 3/4" drop to the old subfloor, including an abandoned heat vent. The heat vent has only claimed a few matchbox cars and one ball. I think we've gotten most of them out. Even if the sides and top of the opening aren't finished, the floor needs to be a continuous, smooth surface for safety reasons!

- install laundry sink
- install washer and dryer
- install handrail (Reu and Rin helped me purchase these, and Matt got the last coat of varnish on tonight)


And, of course, I could write a whole new list of things that are arising as we go. Things including, but certainly not limited to:
- hang window shades
- patch and repaint all of the places where we banged up the walls. ;)
- install vent cover for the Venmar in Barb's bedroom 
- find and install a "Determined Bulgarian" proof gate for the stairs going down to the office/entry landing.
- cut, varnish, install access hatch for Barb's bathroom
- cut, varnish, and install back panel of laundry access hatch (since Reuben thinks that's really cool now that the washer and dryer are in. We found some "treasures" in the dryer vent when we hooked up the ducting! and we needed to get it closed off.)

now you see the back of the washer/dryer from the living room side...

...and now you don't!

 But having a deadline is good. It forces us to tackle the really important stuff, and to leave the things that really can wait. Should be many more nice photos coming soon!