Thursday progress

Matt spent his whole day out in the addition, so this is now where we stand, with one week 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)
- install one more door and hardware upstairs
- install wood floors on upper level and... 

-  ...down stairs to main level (great progress: Stringers: 100%. Risers: 90%. Runs and landing: 85%. Nosings: 75%)

The lower half-flight of stairs as it looks at quitting time tonight.

A pleasant side-effect of the way Matt designed these stairs is that the contrast between the cherry wood flooring and the natural/clear maple/birch trim used for the nosings makes a visual marker of the change in height at the stairs - a safety technique you may have seen in commercial buildings at times, but here just a natural part of the way we're constructing the stairs!  (For reference, because it's an odd photo, this is taken at the landing looking down the stairs.)

And here is a detail of the clear maple/birch stringers, risers, and nosing against the cherry treads.

- 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) (Nope! Not necessary!)
- install bathroom sink
- install sink hardware
- install toilet
- install bathtub hardware
- caulk the bathtub
- build bathroom shelves (We started these today! The shelves are cut to width, and first coat of varnish is on. At the same time we also started and have at the same point the shelves for Barb's sitting room - another bonus not on The List!)
- install bathroom mirror (which, as Matt's pointing out, is more like design/buy/build/install bathroom mirror)

Frame, but no mirror...

...and with the mirror and face frame! For those of you who care and/or are watching, please notice how the rogue electrical outlet box is slowly getting covered up!

- install closet rod(s)
- build doors for the low closet (Maybe. We may just hang fabric on a tension rod.) (Yep. Definitely going to be a curtain. And likely not done before Barb moves in!)
- remove window and...
- ...finish opening between old and new

- install laundry sink
- install washer and dryer
- install handrail (We got three of four brackets installed, and the first rail cut to length, but not installed.)