Fireplace

Carpenter recruited his son to come over to help finish the fireplace. Way back in September we had the masonry guy chop off this awkward little shelf that was floating on the fireplace façade. He sawed it off and basically left it raw. Then the painters added this white shellac to cover it, doing a poor job, per usual. So Carpenter’s son had to chisel it away and start over. He added two new bricks in its place. We will be adding a coat of paint to the fireplace so everything is the same glossy white, but it already blends in so you can’t even tell what was there! Now, this is the exciting part – he replaced the floor tile for the fireplace. We swapped out red tile with marble. The wood floors were raw around the fireplace (I had told the installer that we would be replacing the tile) so it’s been driving me crazy to look at the unfinished product. I would have loved to substitute the whole thing with this old marble fireplace my dad has, but that was too big of a project for right now. I’m happy with the results!

Fireplace is almost complete - just needs a fresh coat of paint

Carpenter has been busy at our house this week. Jord gave him a list of things to accomplish before Thanksgiving to try and get things moving a little quicker. On Monday he replaced the garage people door. It wasn’t “true” so he had to essentially re-frame the whole thing. A big project! He also fixed the dining room light, finished the inserts for the kitchen (surrounding the dishwasher and microwave) and installed the last of the baseboard and quarter rounds. The crown molding is now complete in the kitchen too! This all means more painting – the shingles that were replaced on the garage, the fireplace and the kitchen molding. Jord also started priming two more storm windows – after getting a quote to replace those five windows, we decided to wait on that expensive project. It’s never ending…