Now, where were we?

I had to look through the last few pages of posts to see where I should start from -- a lot has changed around here since I last posted.  I think I was bogged down with some of the boring tasks, like framing, that's really uninspiring to post about.  Now that I've mentioned framing, here's some photos of what the house looked like at the beginning of July (taken early in the morning before the insulators arrived, but after the plumbing exploded the night before when we were testing it):

Looking through the family room to the kitchen.

Entryway (ooo, mystery door!)

Upstairs, with the ugly handrail left so no one takes a header down the stairwell.

Master, complete with bathtub waiting to be installed.

Looking up, way up, to where the chimney used to be.  (Notice the silly diagonal they put it on, ugh.)

One of the dormers, and into the attic.

From the master, through the hallway to the bedrooms.

Master again, part of the bathroom, into a bedroom.

In the kitchen, looking towards where the sink will be.

Yup, pretty boring stuff -- but exciting for those who have imagination!

The mud room

This is where we're currently at with the mud room. Thanks to the well-placed wood stove we had to re-frame (okay, Trevor did the framing, I'm moral support) the corner of the wall that went on a lovely diagonal.

We also had to replace all of the subfloor in this room because the dirty old owners kept three washers and two dryers in it -- and they leaked like mad. Oh, the was also a rat superhighway behind those machines as well between that floor and the basement.

Let's relive that moment when we first moved in and had this visual spectacle of laundry-o-rama:

Ew.

But look on the bright side, at least the brass boob light is gone (boob lights...they follow me everywhere):

For your viewing pleasure, the new (clean and smelling like wood, not anything else) subfloors:

And look! A CORNER! (Clouds open up, beam of light shines down.)