It is finished! Final steps to completing remodel

We can officially say that we're finished with the 2012 remodeling project.

We finished up modeling the living room in the computer and started moving in furniture and getting organized. The only problem is that there is still a lot of "stuff" out in the garage. I guess we'll really be done with the project when we can move the car back in the garage.

The lighting worked out really well.

The recessed lights in the Living Room are recessed deeper:

It's hard to tell, but that's a light on the ceiling, with a 1.5 inch deep trim. This places the bulb higher up so that you don't see the bulb so directly, unlike the kitchen.

There are two lighting zones and a ceiling fan/light.

This gives us a lot of control over what gets lit up. The four lights over the main area are also on a dimmer so we can dim the light to watch TV at night and relax.

The two lights the to left in the picture above are on a three-way light switch, one switch is near the front door and the other one is near the hallway to the back rooms. These lights act as a sort of hallway light for the room and light up our pictures along that wall:

 In addition to the contractor finishing the lighting and paint in the Living Room, I actually did some work around the house. Sandi picked out a new address plate for the front of our house so I put that up. Here's an edited version of the plate, removed the address, so you can see the pattern:

We also installed a new screen door on the front of the house. My daughter asked if needed the contractor to help me, no I can manage just fine thank you very much. I did take care of this place for 18 years before I asked a contractor to come and do some major work.

Tyler actually did some of the work around here too. The contractor took the butcher block back off of the island and had him sand it smooth. Once it was sanded we applied multiple passes of Mineral Oil to seal and give the wood a good color.

So now we get to enjoy our Holidays and then we'll be clearing out the garage again and hopefully getting the van back in there very soon. I still remember when I brought home the China cabinet in May and told the family it would be months before we parked the van in the garage again and everyone was surprised. Hopefully it will be before May that we can park in there again.