English Translation: Most Important Part of the Whole
It's hard to really pick one thing. It could be the kitchen, it could be the stairwell--it could be the mantels, but for right now, here are the brand new stairs.
We got a special delivery of three of the balusters on order for the stairs. The rest will arrive on Monday, but it was nice getting a sneak preview. They are VERY heavy weight and also very pretty.
The backyard was fairly overgrown with brush making the 9 acres look like 1/3 of an acre. In the midst of the brush was every possible poisonous plant indigenous to this area--poison oak, poison sumac, and poison ivy. Not to mention ticks. We hate ticks.
In the midst of some of these photos the hardwood floors were installed. We didn't get any photos of the install in progress, but you can see the new floors in the pictures.