The fireplace is supposed to go in today (Saturday)

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And the stone & tile guys will be back on Monday to wrap up the stone work.

Ceiling detail

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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.