Saturday, July 2, 2011

Letting the light in

The windows above our kitchen are in!  Vinnie had these beautiful matching stained glass windows laying around and dreamt this whole project up when we asked him to do our kitchen.  (This whole project being opening up the ceiling, cutting the 24 foot long beams going across the house here and sistering them together to expose them so we have the vaulted ceiling with extra light)  He framed them in and got them up yesterday and started on the bead board.  Today he finished all the bead board - it looks cool now and is going to look even more awesome once we get it all painted and some cabinets & sheet rock in our kitchen.  Oh, and a sink and appliances might help as well.
View as it will look from standing in the center of the soon-to-be kitchen
I know it's hard to get the idea of, but this is the view from standing in the living room looking towards the kitchen/back of the house

In other, also exciting news, our floor guys came today and ripped a bunch of boards out and installed our new/old flooring over where the stairs were.  I was shocked they got it all done in one day and will have to post an after-picture tomorrow.