The clock is ticking

Here ends the last full day of work. After supper our friend Chad came over to help Matt move some of our furniture into the main level of the addition to make room for some of the things that will be coming from his mom's. Tomorrow Matt helps his mom pack, and the next day she moves.

We think we're going to make it.

Things aren't done out there, but we're feeling pretty good about it. We'll have a little bit of time tomorrow night, and some time Thursday morning to clean up and tie up a few loose ends.

This is the view that now greets me as I walk into my kitchen. No table in there anymore! We had our last night of trying to seat 9 at a table made for four. ;) Tomorrow's supper is the last church potluck of the summer, and Thursday we'll have a bigger table in what used to be our living room, but will from now on be our dining room.

And now, for the first time, furniture! in the addition! There's a piano in the piano niche, and a table under the hanging lights, all ready for a puzzle, or timed math worksheets, or a meeting with clients. This room is not finished, but all it's missing is trim, and that doesn't make a lot of mess to do. We'll get there, eventually.

Looking from the other side at the table area. That couch is only living there temporarily.

Looking north it's even more obvious that this is a work in progress. The north half of the main level is still a stock-pile for trim and a staging place for varnishing. The dark brown couch is a temporary wall. ;)

This shelf is something we're hoping to have done yet. If nothing else, we at least have to get the tool stockpile off of it! But we're hoping we can get the plywood bottom put in. It's cut roughly to size, and has all three coats of finish on it.

Today Matt built the bathroom shelves...

...and the sitting room shelves, with the exception of the top shelf which he cut, but still needs its three coats of varnish. That will be easy enough to add later.

Owen and Leah used some window markers to decorate Grandma's mirror as a welcoming gift.

The door way to the low closet is trimmed out, and what you can't see is that I've got almost all of the nail holes puttied. (I had no idea until I started to putty each one how very many holes my husband has put into putting this thing together!) We have plans, but not time yet, to finish the little reading hidey-hole (the triangular corner inside the closet goes up into some dead space in the trusses - just enough space for one person to hide out. Or four, depending on what they're doing and how big they are!)