Day 44 - 10/21/2010

Thursday was a busy day at the house as we sprint toward getting ready for the arrival of our Swiss guests coming for the wedding.

The painters put the final touches on the outside paint job.  They went the extra mile doing little repairs to the wood as needed.  For example, they fixed a split in the front door frame and you can't even tell that it had split.  In addition, on Wed, Andy asked for a quote on staining and finishing the stairs.  They were actually able to get right on that and did that on Thursday as well. 

Not a great photo but you can see the nice job Oscar and his crew did.  Andy will add tiles on the risers.

The concrete crew was at the house working on the pool deck extension and doing some finishing touches to the concrete inside.  Outside, the removed the bushes along the back of the house and it really opened up the area.  Andy absolutely hated those bushes anyway.  Inside they chipped away at various high spots in the foundation and will float some new concrete in those spots to finish out the foundation.

Taking out the overgrown bushes really opens this space up.

Since all of the kitchen cabinets were assembled, it seemed to be a shame not to get them installed.  Andy and Kip figured it would take them a few days to get them installed.  So, Andy asked if Miquel, carpenter extraordinaire, could come in and help.  And we're glad he did.  One wall in the kitchen which was part of the old kitchen but with new drywall, was a crazy wall.  It took a lot of time and work to work around the issues with that wall.  But that one is done and they should be able to knock out the rest on Friday.

The longest wall of cabinets are now in place on the crazy wall.

And the AC was finally turned on upstairs.  That is good with the warm weather we've been having in Dallas lately.  The Swiss are probably not used to these temperatures.

Basically, everyone is running as fast as we can to get the space livable by Saturday evening.