We have a kitchen!!!... sort of

The floor was finally dry enough to walk on Thanksgiving morning. We still had to paint the second coat on the walls, primer the trim, move in and hook up the stove & refrigerator, and set up for the dinner scheduled for 4pm. We made it... barely. Here's a few pics of what it looks like now:







It still has a long way to go but at least it's usable for now. Next on the list is the cabinets, we've already sanded and primered two of them, We still have to build the sink cabinet, redesign two of the upper cabinets and build all of the doors for them before we can install them. hopefully then it will start looking like a kitchen.

We also had to get the main bathroom walls finished before Thanksgiving dinner:


I think it turned out great. We still need to finish stripping the remaining painted trim and stain it all, strip and refinish the vanity, install the sink, faucet, and mirror in the vanity, and install the toilet once it arrives.

I found a really cool old Victorian toilet on E-bay, it should be getting here sometime next week.



Oh, and one other thing. These pictures demonstrate the extreme importance of checking all your wiring and outlets:




This outlet failed and damn near burned the house down. Weird thing is, there was nothing plugged into it. Last week I started noticing a smell in The dining room, it smelled like an old campfire. I couldn't trace it so I just assumed that it was coming from the fireplace (even though it's closed off and hasn't been used in ages). I went out of town for two days and when I got back I noticed that some of the outlets in the kitchen weren't working, I checked the breaker but it wasn't tripped. I finally traced it back to this outlet. How it didn't burn the house down I don't know... I'm just thanking God it didn't.