The photo finale

Thank you for waiting (for those of you who have been following the progress on the addition.)

I had a chance to get upstairs and get some pictures of how the rooms for Matt's mom turned out, so I hope you enjoy seeing where the last year-plus has brought us.

The Bathroom

Building the shelves was a fun finishing piece. We made the shelf below the light switch deeper than the others so we could hang a fabric curtain behind the face trim to cover the lower shelves. Baskets on the upper shelves help to contain small items, and the lower shelves provide a place to stash things that aren't "pretty," like extra rolls of toilet paper, or ice cream buckets with curlers, etc.

Here is what it looks like with the door closed. I still really like the doors we picked. ;)

 The Front (Sitting) Room

This is the "sneak peek" photo I shared already, but wanted to include it again so the post would be complete. I love that the piano lives here, because this piano belonged to Matt's dad's parents - who owned our house before we did - so that piano lived for many years in what is now our dining room, then for many years at Matt's parents' house, and now back here, but in a different room. (Please note, too, that the top shelf of the bank at the left of the photo is still not in place. It's cut, stained, and ready, but not in.)

Looking back toward the west, you can see how the two small chair tuck in under the lowering ceiling.

And turning a bit to the right you can see out the door to the hallway, and the door to the hall coat closet.

 The Hall and Stair

Looking down the stairs (with the bathroom door behind me, the bedroom to my right, and the front room to my left), you can see the trim band that runs off the landing window head, around the corner, and becomes the top edge of the built in shelf. The two-tone walls continue to be interesting to watch as they change in different kinds of light and times of day.

The door frame provides a natural place to end the trim band.

 The Bedroom

Walking into the bedroom, the big windows provide a lot of light even though they face north (and usually have the shades pulled!)

Standing at the north wall looking south-east you can see the closet door, and also how the tall armoire just fits. We measured her furniture while we were still in the design phase of the project so we knew that her bedroom set would fit!

Looking south-west toward the door to the hall you can see the still-open opening to the bigger storage closet. We had talked about doors versus a curtain, and are thinking now that this will be a curtain. Barb has some fabric left over that matches her bedding, so I plan to use that for the curtain, or at least a border on the curtain, depending how much fabric is actually left.

It's nice having these spaces done. Many many hours of hard work by many people went into this project, and even though we don't have the whole thing done, having this part of our goal complete is quite satisfying.