A view from the north west side . . .

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that is a lot of stone.

Our cool round undermount sink.

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They are still working on the kitchen area . . .

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but the doors are in, the sink is in and the spaces are there for the grill and side burners. From right to left:
Space for refrigerator, Grill, Side burner, and on the left end the sink.

More ceiling

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Stone and tile guys have been working for a week . . .

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and things are looking good. Here you can see the front of the fireplace, and some of the tongue and grrove ceiling that is making progress.

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From the porch

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Front Porch posts

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The upper part of the posts will be covered with painted wood, but the stone looks great.

The New Chimney!

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The guys started on the roof wrapping the chimney in stone. It looks awesome. We will probably have to wrap our old brick fireplace in stone too.

A view from down the street

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An updated front view.

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With the gutters, and siding on the step landing, and boxes around the posts it is becoming easier to see the what the finished product will be.

Now that we are on the home stretch . . .

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it is time to bear down on details, here you see a sample of the paint we like, with our stone and a random black thing representing the gutters and railings.

A close up of the surface

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More waterproof flooring.

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You can see how much care was taken when installing this around where our counters will go, there are even runoff channels in case we have some sort of flooding on our patio.

The surface . . .

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So this whole project started because the patio leaked into the garage below, and had been leaking for a long long time. If you go back to the beginning portion of this blog there are photos of the rotten wood underneath.

The surface that we chose for our surface is a 60mm vinyl that is applied in a bombproof and leakproof way. It isn't as attractive as tile, but it won't leak and isn't unattractive. It is good to have it installed.

Fireplace stone

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Andrea and VK visited another house that our contractor is remodeling, this fireplace uses the same stone material as ours will. I think it looks pretty cool. Apparently the whole house is amazing, which reminds me that I should throw out a shot for our contractor here pretty soon.

While the updates have slowed . . .

The work has gone on, but from a blogging perspective it hasn't felt like the sort of thing that was post worthy. All the windows are in, and that is awesome for us, but not really much to see. Lots of details were taken care of, electrical (the hot tub has been operating for a few weeks now, lights on the front porch and patio are working, as well as the back porch), the fireplace is framed and ready for rock, the Air Conditioner has been moved to a more sensible and efficient location, all the gas, ac, and power lines are up in the studio framing now, our music system for playing music on the patio and in the kitchen is installed and rocking.

In the next 2 weeks we will see many big and visible improvements happen. We are looking forward to:

1) Surfacing the patio.
2) Gutters (we need these badly. If you have gutters and don't appreciate them . . . go ahead and take them off. When it rains water runs off your house . . . everywhere. It is loud and wet. Gutters are great, we can't wait to get our new ones.
3) Stone on the fireplace.
4) Build out of the kitchen counters
5) Tile on the counters
6) installation of the appliances
7) Custom made railings
8) Trim all around
9) Tongue and groove ceiling on the patio
10) Sheetrock in the studio

There is more . . . but that is a pretty exciting list. Stay tuned.

Looking west

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You can see the fireplace, kitchen and the back yard.

All cleaned up

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The guys did a thorough cleaning before leaving for the long weekend. Here looking east you can get a feel for how it will be when it is done.