A Sneak Peek at the inside of the house

The top picture is showing some of the kitchen. The door in the center is actually the refrigerator and it has drinks in it for the workers! The door on the right goes to the pantry and the open door on the left goes into my "craft room", which is the next picture! Most of the cabinets are installed, we need some crown molding at the top and obviously my counter top, but then I can start loading my room with my hobbies of paper crafting...card making, scrap booking, and then yarn for knitting, and my sewing machine, too!

The next picture shows the installed ovens. Yes there are TWO, no more issues with cooking a turkey, rolls and veggies!! Because I am also having a steam oven and then of course a traditional microwave! And YES, Scott had me make some chocolate cookies and bake them in the new oven. He said they were the BEST HE EVER ATE! (whatever....). so he thinks we are ready to move in...ha ha! The next picture shows the two posts for the entry between the living room and the entry room. The posts are Juniper and they came from Nevada. A local "log furniture" person went to Nevada to hunt for these for us and it was not easy to find ones especially for the size we wanted...but he came through for us! He brought them to us about a month ago and we set them in the living room, after a weekend of relaxing, we came back to the new house and Scott found little pilings of "saw dust". Beetles were living inside the wood...so back to the shop and into a kiln for several days to kill the beetles! Thank goodness, I do NOT need beetles living in my house!

The last picture I posted shows the front door and the entry room. All our doors are made of mesquite wood and they were made in Mexico. The wagon wheel on the ceiling also came from Mexico and is 150 years old. Scott attached it to the ceiling, put wire through the center and then when we were in Coeur d'Alene for vacation, we found this hanging light fixture and thought it would look great below the wheel. So there it is!

The entry, hallways and all bathrooms have a stone that came from a quarry in Mexico...the hardwood floors that we have are also mesquite, but I believe that wood came from South America. So there you have a sneak peek....are you anxious to see the whole thing? Well, so am I! I mean I am excited to move in...you know that it has been over two years since we started this project! Isn't there a saying about "patience" and "all things are worth waiting for" and I am sure there is more...but really I am ready to move and be done with this project! And I must admit, we are close, I am painting all the crown molding right now and Scott is painting some of the rooms that were not already done. You see, some of the walls have clay on them, and the color is incorporated in the clay, so they are all done! Kind of gives the house a "Tuscany old world feel!" Well, when it is all done, I will post more pictures so you can see it and then you all are most welcome to see it first hand and get a tour!