Week 9 Day 4 & 5

The Mister and I were able to get away for a long weekend, so I don't have exact pictures of when things happened between days 4 & 5 so I'm going to do one long post.  These days were quite exciting from a progress standpoint so I hope you enjoy the abundance of pictures this post will bring.

It is hard to get a good picture of the wood floor markings that were made to deal with Issue #1, but if you look at the 4th boards down, you will see three is a faint verticle line in the middle of a piece of wood where the grain doesn't change.  I think once all the floor coverings are up, I can get these markings stained slightly darker and sealed, then all will be as good as it's going to be considering we went for a compromise.  Knowing the limited amount of original hard wood we had left to work with, I honestly think in the long run this was probably as good of a solution as the other.  So, yeah... live and learn.

In the below picture you can see faint lines that were made in the boards following the pattern.  Again, they need to be slightly darker and sealed, but that's a project for another day.

We have countertops! Woohoo!  Also, under the cabinet lighting is peaking out if you look closely.  This will be hidden behind trim eventually, but for now shows itself proudly in person.

 The oven doors are now installed.  There will be an additional piece of trim that goes above the top of the oven to close in that gap.

Look at all the counter space.  So exciting!!!  Also, I never quite understand why some drawers go missing... I just assume they will show up at the appropriate time.

 The prep sink and the cooktop are in.  It will be so exciting to walk in from the backyard with fresh produce or turn from the refrigerator and prep items right for cooking in this area.

And here's a before and current progress picture.  The refrigerator is still in the way to get the full view, but here's an attempt:

And for a little outside housekeeping, the underboard of the new window was installed.  It looks like some additional trim needs to take place to finish this off, but all in all progress is happening.