Oct. 26 - Thinking about when to move in

We've been talking to the moving company about moving our belongings to our new house sometime in November. We're hoping to be able to move in sometime during the week of November 12 (if there are no major snags between now and then).

We hired a lady to paint the interior of all our windows and doors. Her first day was today and she made some good progress. She'll be back early Monday morning to keep at it all day.

Things should really start to come together in the next 2 weeks. We requested that our appliances be shipped to arrive by Oct 31. The countertops will be installed on November 1. The remainder of the kitchen will get finished on/about November 5/6.

Larry the Tile Guy is working in the bathrooms now and should be wrapping up his work next week. So, we'll have functional bathrooms soon. I ordered 2 toilets online today as well as the cover plates for all the power receptacles and light switches.

Here's a shot of the tray ceiling in our master bedroom with the crown molding installed. The crown will hide the rope lighting in the tray.

The chair rail is up and the wainscot painted in the master bath.

Tom helped me to install my cell phone repeater on the roof this afternoon next to the dish. We now have 3 bars where we might have had one or none before. There are some dead spots but our cell phones are now working inside the house. The inside antenna is temporarily mounted and will need some tweaking in the days to come for optimal performance.

After a day away from it, I'll be staining again tomorrow. I have three doors and some oak trim around the stairwell to stain this weekend. Tom and Larry are also planning to work for part of the day tomorrow. Lots to do yet but we can start to imagine actually moving in.