We’re slowly making progress with the various pieces of finish work that need to be completed, and recently we finished off painting our stair risers. Not the cleanest painting job ever… And it took a little while to take care of, but we were able to knock it out by ourselves, with paint we already had, costing us basically nothing. For months the risers have been just unfinished MDF waiting for us to pay attention to them. Additionally, there are a couple of walls that had been painted during the first round, but have since been torn apart for various reasons including things like digging for a buried light switch that had been accidentally covered with OSB sheathing (its in a shear wall) which was then covered with sheet rock. So despite the patches, those two walls needed some new paint.

Our Current To Do List

There’s still a fair amount of stuff thats currently hanging over our heads that we know needs to get completed before we’re going to feel solidly moved in. My big priority right now is shelving, Katherine’s is getting clear finish on our remaining exposed wood… Both of those are going to have big impacts on how we use our space. Since moving in we have been living in a sea of boxes, we’ve worked it down to be more of a medium sized lake but we still have a serious amount of books and tea that need a more organized home. And as for the wood, we have a lot of it, and large amounts of it are still raw. Our windows, window sills, handrails, and exposed beams are all in need of some sort of protective coat and until that happens we risk staining things through general usage. Plus it would be great to be able to put some potted plants up on our window sills.

Then once we’re on top of those, we’ll be tackling window coverings which will be a great improvement over the fabric that we currently have pinned up. I’ll be making something that is basically a roman shade that is operable from the top and bottom so that we can balance a need for both light and privacy. And then there is the paint we need to put on the outside of the windows. Once we have a little money to spend we’re going to get our contractor back out to deal with the four windows that require being up on a tall ladder. We can deal with the rest by ourselves and hopefully will in the next few weeks.

Also

Seen from our sleeping loft a couple of days ago: