November is here...

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And things are still moving along.  :-)

We painted all the interior doors except the guest room bi-fold closet door.  Most of them are installed.  The few that are not will be installed after we get done with shelves and the geothermal heat pump.

I painted the trim board that the rain gutters attach to and the gutters were installed. It was just in time. It poured down the very next day! Winter weather is here, it's raining most days now.  I'm glad we got the gutters up when we did. I just wish we could have gotten moved in before the rains started but we didn't.

In regards to the exterior painting I still have the window and door trim to paint and then touch ups.  I did paint all the boards that the exterior light fixtures go on. Larry installed one light fixture next to the garage door and we didn't like it. The board is too small for the box type fixture we bought. It needs a smaller one or a lantern style fixture. I prefer the box style but I'm sure we can find an acceptable lantern style that will work.

We picked up the front yard so that some dirt work could be done. Larry had noticed a guy down the road grating a driveway. He went and asked if he had time to do some dirt work. And luckily he had time. :-) It was very reasonable and took him only two hours, if that.  We still don't know how we want the yard around the house to look but we really needed to get the dirt moved away from the house and smoothed out properly for drainage.  It came out really nice.  A bonus in cleaning the yard was we had to organize the shop/barn in order to put away wood and the stuff we needed to get out of the winter weather. I'm glad that chore is over. :-)  All summer we have reorganized that area over and over again because we were always getting things out from there and then putting new things in. I think this is the last time we will be in there until next spring.. :-)

Here are some pictures of the carpet fully installed. We Love it! The color and the feel. We put in an 8lb pad and it was soo worth it. :-)

Living Room

 Hallway

 Guest Room

 Master Bedroom

Since the cabinets arrived they have sat in the kitchen and garage. We finally broke down and hired someone to install them. It was well worth it. If Larry and I were to do it ourselves it might have taken a couple months. ;-)  We bought some prefab counter tops at Home Depot before the cabinet guys were done.  That way they could install those also. It was sooo worth it! :-)  Now we get to install the appliances. We bought a stainless steel double oven at a Sears Outlet in Portland and after we installed it we discovered there was damage to the doors that caused the lower oven to not work.  We called the service dept and they could not find anyone to fix it. We spent 2+ weeks working on trying to find someone. So, we drove it back to Portland and returned it. They normally charge a 15% restocking fee but since the repair dispatch couldn't find anyone who would come to our house to fix it, they gave us a full refund.  :-)  We had bought our cook-top and microwave from Oldfield's locally in Eugene, so we went back to them to purchase all our appliances.  It was a little more money but well worth it. They have great customer service and they will service our appliances if we have any problems. The good thing about returning the double oven is I can have white appliances. :-) We were going with stainless steel only because of the great price we got on the double oven. So we exchanged the stainless steel microwave for a white one, purchased a white double oven they had in stock and ordered a white dishwasher. They all came in today. I'm ecstatic! :-D

Well, that is all for now. Thanks for stopping by to see our progress on the project. :-)