Shower tiles.

The shower tiles have arrived. Linda has spent the last couple of weeks getting the design of the shower done and getting the tiles ordered. We are not sure when the tiles will get installed.

Draws have arrived

The floors got a second coat of Tung oil and the smell of the oil is almost gone. Tung oil is made from the pressed seed from the nut of the tung tree. It has been used to finish wood for hundreds if not thousands of years in China. We got our tung oil from another one of Dick's customers, who had some left over. In MA you cannot by the gallon cans of the tung oil, only quart cans, because of the amount of flammable vapors that this product produces.

Dick brought the draws in this morning and he will be installing them today.

Finishing floors.

The floor is still wet, and I took the pictures from the front door.


This weekend we sanded and finished floors. On Saturday we sanded and vacuumed dust from 9am to 6pm. Sunday morning we vacuumed again and put down the finish. On Monday morning we sanded again, vacuumed again and put down a second coat. The house smells terrible. We will put down another coat before we move in.

The pantry.

The doors on the kitchen pantry can open up against the front of the pantry. I think we will have the same type of door for the bedroom. This weekend we will be sanding and finishing the floors.

Dick has started installing the cabinet doors. We have glass doors on the overhead cabinets and little windows on the pantry doors. He also started on the draw slides. The draw slides that we picked, will not let you slam the draw, and will automatically close the draw the last 2-3 inches. We went to the soapstone counter store this weekend and picked out the type of soapstone that we will be getting. We ordered a sink this morning, and got the faucets this weekend. The kitchen is slowly coming together.

Wildlife in Lunenburg.

Last night at dusk, we saw a raccoon mother and three kids. The raccoons climbed on the roof of the shed next door, and down the inside of the chimney. We think they are living in the shed. This is not a very clear picture, but you can see the eyes.

The kitchen work continues.

Dick adds parts to the kitchen cabinets every day. The curved section on the bottom of the panel covers the cup shelf.

Heat for the new kitchen.

The heat for the new kitchen comes from a powered heater, called a toester. The heater is installed under a kitchen cabinet. It has an electric fan, and hot water pipes. I needed to drill some holes to the basement to connect the heater to the proper zone on the furnace. This section of the kitchen is located above the old garage, so the holes were drilled in the concrete that provided the roof to the old garage. Between the plumbing, electrical, woodworking, and concrete work, I spend a good 3 hours installing the heater, and I still have more work to hook this up to the furnace. (what a pain)

Our new lawn has started to come in. This picture was taken a while ago, now the front yard looks wet with puddles. The yard on the lake side is still a sea of mud.

Work on the bathroom is progressing.

There is a shelf in back of the toilet for towels.

The trim has been installed around the windows, and the bathroom vanity has been installed. Dick is working on doors and draws. The inside of the cabinets has been painted yellow; We were shooting for cream, but yellow will be ok.

More work on Cabinets

Dick is working on kitchen cabinets. He is installing the end panels and face-frames. The doors and draws will come when the draw slides arrive. We picked special draw slides that will close the draw automatically without slamming the draw. The kitchen cabinets are made out of white oak.

Hardwood floors are done in the addition.

Ben helped me finish up the hardwood floors on Saturday. This completes three rooms of hardwood floors, about 1000 square feet. The next step is to sand and finish the floors, but I need to work around Dick.

I will install new floors in the old kitchen, but that project will come later.