Milestone

This weekend we moved into the rear of the house! Here's what it looked like before we moved all of our stuff back there:

The final walkthrough of the back went okay, yielding a number of small issues. Those have been mostly addressed, and we were told that it would all be done and we could move in by end-of-day Friday. And of course, they managed to leave some little things to Monday, meaning they have since been working in the back of the house - sanding, no less! - when we made it really clear they had to be out of there before we moved in. Grrr! By end-of-day Wednesday the space still had details left unfinished - for example, we went to run the dishwashers to clean dishes before we put them away and, although they ran beautifully, they didn't do such a great job because they didn't get any water. Oops.

There are still a lot of things, large and small, that we are very dissatisfied with, but we're just going to have to deal with them and work them out ourselves over time. The project has to move forward. Overall the space and layout are what we wanted, it just looks like it's going to take more time, effort, money, and possibly a visit from another contractor to fully realize our vision here.

So we have moved all of our things out of the front two rooms and the workers have been in there fixing up all the stuff they missed. So we're still in a somewhat cramped situation, but the scenery has changed.

On the plus side, we have fire! And we used it for our first home-cooked dinner in 3 months.