A few steps closer....

Happy Sunday!!  Here are the pics as promised of the living room,  we actually got our dining room delivered today but I guess I had taken this shot before it arrived.

Right now, that back wall where the tv is sitting is looking pretty bare, but our plans for this Fall is to create built-ins, with a fireplace.  Would love something like this:

 via Bella Mancini Design

or something like this:

via Inside-Out Design

As I was writing how I didn't have a pic of the dining room, Derik took one for me :-)  Here you go!  

The table was custom made out of barn board from a small town outside of Ottawa.  It was made by the same lady who made the bench that is sitting behind the sofa in the first pic above.  It is so great to have furniture that is one of a kind and custom for what we want and like, we love this table, it ahs so much character.  We also ended up buying a ceiling light for the dining room today. As they didn't have any in stock, we will need to wait about 2-3 weeks for that to arrive. I have ordered curtains from Etsy for the dining room that have yet to arrive.  They are similar to these, if not, these ones.

Here is a shot from the living room:

Unfortunately, the painting of the main floor is delayed because the bathroom door we ordered is taking about 4 weeks longer to arrive. womp womp.  That's ok as it frees up time to do more shopping :-)  Left on the list, is a mirror to go on the console in the entrance, an ottoman for the living room to replace the existing coffee table, a mirror and sconces the main floor bathroom. Not much more to get now for the main floor, it's so great to mark things off a list!!

Well have a great rest of your week!!

***It just came to my attention that in the first pic, the actor is taking a swig out of a flask.  I had no idea, and wasn't really paying attention as I was taking the pic.  Without having to go through the process of a more "family friendly" pic, I thought I would mention that it we had been watching the movie Warrior this morning.  It was really good actually, pretty entertaining. Definitely recommend it :-)

Main floor progress

Happy Easter Monday from 224 Sanford! It's so nice to get a long weekend.  We took today off instead of Friday as it was month end on Friday and in sales it's very hard to take that day off from work.  That is pretty much when ALL the business that you have been working on for that quarter comes in. So we decided to roll the day off over to today. It's definitely nice to start the week knowing that it's shorter.

My last post was a little pre-emptive as I completely skipped over the installation of the hardwood.

 The below picture on the left is a little dark because it might have been later in the day as we had set out all of the hardwood the (Friday) night before to help make installation move by quickly on Saturday.  The idea was that we could grab planks as they were installed. And again by we, I mean Derik as I head out to have a dress fitting for a wedding and head to upstate NY to pick up some furniture pieces we had shipped to the local UPS.

When I had come back by noon progress was moving along nicely.

Once the floor went down we were able to start moving furniture in....for some reason right now I only had a picture of the rug, no furniture. We were pretty ecstatic to have new flooring that wasn't covered in drywall dust, sawdust and plaster.  It was 60 year old hardwood that probably had never been maintained so it was very worn and tired. We are very happy with the results and getting new hardwood and not saving what was there, well worth it! I'll get some pictures later today of the room with furniture.

 This weekend, we also started the main floor bathroom, we fell a little behind as plumbing took a little longer than expected. Here is the radiant flooring going down.

 Not sure if I have already mentioned but our house was built circa 1950, so some of the walls and floors tend to be a little crooked.  To correct and level the flooring in the bathroom (had to do this in the laundry room which is adjacent to this bathroom) we had to put self-leveling cement to correct about a 1 inch discrepancy from one side of the bathroom to other.

Today's agenda includes tiling the bathroom floor and hopefully get a few more furniture pieces.  I'll also get pics of our new living room!!