more finishing work.

All the interior painting is done. (With the exception of touching up some little accidents.) The electricians are putting cover plates, switches, outlets and light fixtures up. Cabinetry is going in. Things are moving right along, kind of... Here's the timeline, minus some unrelated things:
- Clean and dry concrete floors.
- Seal concrete floors.
- Install interior doors.
- Install baseboard and door trim.
- Coat all trim with polyurethane.
- Move in.

It seems like all of those things could be done in a timely fashion, but no. A few more interior things need to be finished before the floors are cleaned. Then the floors have to dry out for at least a week. But we can't dry the floors until the gas and electricity are hooked up and the radiant is running, which won't be until the end of this week. (Thanks, PG&E.) Then 2-3 coats of the sealer should take at least another week. Installing the interior doors shouldn't take that long, but coating all the woodwork in poly? That's going to take forever. We might as well find a way to dip the whole house in it. It seems like the easiest way.

And then there are things like me tiling at a snail's pace that are holding up the finish plumbing work... It's not hard, it's just time consuming. I started the subway tile in the main bath and got about 10 sq. ft. done in 3 hours. And that bathtub has 75 sq. ft. alone. Then there's the master shower, the entertainment center countertop and the kitchen backsplash. And somehow, we still are trying to move in within the month of June.

Here are the entertainment center cabinets. Base cabinets with doors and open bookshelves above.

There's the kitchen. Doors will go on all those cabinets. The fridge and stove are temporarily off to the left. Flooring for the kitchen has been delivered--it's Australian Cypress--and it's luscious.

Here's the master bath. The blue concrete shower pan has been poured, along with the caps for the curb and pony-wall.

In other news, the house is finally sealed up. Hopefully we won't be finding anymore mystery puddles or #2's in the middle of the house. HSU's softball team was knocked out of the playoffs, so no repeat National Championship this year. That will allow Art to get back to working on our house. I think he's all lined up to start on the exterior paint. Let's hope the weather stays nice.