Ceiling Fan Ideas.

What do you think?

For the living room:


For the guest bedrooms:

The Clutter During Construction

Here's a quick shot of the dining room during construction. A mess.

Kitchen - End of Day 4

The kitchen is coming along really well. At the end of day 4, they were able to put in all but 2 of the upper cabinets, finish the island and mount the sink base. Overall, it's looking good. Here are a few shots from this morning:









The rest of the schedule (if all goes well):

Monday, 5/21 - Electrician (outlet for wine fridge, 110 outlet behind oven)
Monday, 5/21 - Measure for countertop (hopefully)
Tuesday, 5/22 - Off (was supposed to be drywall, but we don't need it)
Wednesday, 5/23 - Mount the rest of the uppers, begin finishing
Thursday, 5/23 - Finish trim & pantry door, install appliances (except dishwasher)

Sometime about 2 weeks from now - install sink, countertop, dishwasher. BE FINISHED!

Middle of Day 3

By the end of day 2 we had the base cabinets installed (see the previous post). Today, by lunch they had finished the island and begun work on the upper cabinets, starting near the fridge.

More pics end of day - the upper cabinets are going VERY quickly.

Mid-Day Kitchen Update

After a bit of scrambling and a few phone calls back and forth, the contractors are back to install cabinets today - instead of next week. Here are the updated photos - I think I'm really going to like this kitchen (once we change that green color on the walls).

First one goes in this morning:


The full set of base cabinets on the left side of the kitchen (by the fridge):



The full set of base cabinets on the right side of the kitchen (by the sink):


He's currently working on the island. once that is in (and the sink base) we can order our countertops (and then wait 2 weeks for them to come in).

In the Garden

I'm told my life is like an HGTV show. Maybe we should have pitched it to them and gotten paid for all of this.

First update:
The flowers out front are Flag Irises. My aunt has them in her fish pond - they apparently love water. Once the fully bloom we should have a TON of them (judging from the dark purple peeking through the closed leaves). Mom says they bloom in the Spring and again in the Fall. And after that, we can cut them down with the weed whacker, dig them up, separate the bulbs and replant them over a greater surface area. Cool.

Second update:
We inherited a small strawberry patch in the back. After a few Miracle Gro applications, the things were standing straight up and had white flowers like CRAZY. The white flowers are disappearing and the strawberries are starting to form.



Will be a while before they're edible, but looks like we'll have a ton. This was one of the biggest ones.

The mystery flowers bloom.

Remember the mystery flowers I wrote about a couple of posts back?



Well, today when I got home from Charleston I noticed three of them bloomed! Here they are. They seem to be some kind of iris perhaps?