House: we can has one now

[glaurung]

Ten weeks after renovations started, we finally have a house. Some things remain un done, but that is due on the one hand, to scew-ups with our plumbing order (order an elongated, raised-height toilet, get one that is neither, then the manufacturer insists that they did send exactly what we ordered; order a sink and have it delivered without the necessary mounting hardware), on the other hand to the weather, which was like this for all of February and the first half of March (that door is 2 feet above ground level):



and on the gripping hand, to a few modest miscommunications about our special requirements, such as the need to have the back stairs land on a concrete pad that in turn becomes perfectly flush with the existing driveway, because after she's away from the handrails, morgan_dhu cannot handle even a tiny step up or down.



To sum up:

We have an accessible entrance for morgan_dhu:



The tarps cover the third, hopefully final pour of concrete (we didn't convey our needs to Shawn very well the first two times). Not yet installed: Aluminum handrails bolted into the concrete (the concrete needs to cure a week or so first).

A mini-deck:

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Which leads to a new back door (the window in the door will be replaced with pin glass in a couple weeks; the supplier goofed):



The back door leads into a large living room:





Which leads in turn to the study:



Which is also the nerve centre of the house, with doors leading to the bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen:



The bathroom has the world's largest shower stall, with a seat. That thing between the toilet and seat is [sigh] a $300 grab bar. Bankruptcy is fun!



(this picture is just for morgan_dhu) The threshold of the shower is very low:



Continuing on, we have a big bedroom, large enough for a queen or even a king bed, some dressers, a wardrobe, and maybe even (we hope) a book-nook couch tucked into the bay window:



(The door to the front entryway is going to get a curtain over the glass, and will be spending 99% of its life closed).

There's a rather cramped kitchen (only the floor and the range hood/cabinet combination are new):





In the basement, we have a guest bedroom (this was focused on the shiny floor, sorry for the poor perspective):

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A furnace/laundry room:





For which we need to get a new washer and dryer.

Finally, there's a tiny little basement powder room, a cold room, and a couple of boring storage rooms (which I shan't bother posting pictures of as I've slaved over this hot computer all day and it's time to go do something else now).

Comments

[xochiquetzl]

Yay! It looks great!