This weekend Loren and I spent most of 

our time upstairs. Loren filled cracks in the
plaster in the guest bedroom while I finished
paint work in our master bedroom and the
upstairs hallway.

The guest bedroom (right)...

The upstairs hallway (below)....

We also took a paint break this afternoon to run to the Pottery Barn outlet mall
at Birch Run...and were very pleasantly surprised to find each of the pieces for
the modular bar (that we'd been eyeing for awhile) for literally over 70% off the
list price.

We made an impromptu purchase for our dining room.

This should be a big week ahead because the initial couple of our contractor projects 

are starting. Tomorrow the first-floor wall demo should happen, and the contractor will take 

the remainder of the week to finish touching up plaster along the edges where the wall was. 

This Tuesday, another contractor will start refinishing the floors on the second floor. 

When Loren gets home from Houston this week, our house should look very different!

Then a week from tomorrow, when the wall and plaster are complete, the crew refinishing 

our floors start work on the first-floor floors. Next week, we also have someone 

else starting the external paint, and that job should take about a week.

Tomorrow we should hear back the third quote for putting in our high velocity 

air system, and we hope to be able to move forward that decision as well soon. Our goal is still to

move in the first (or possibly the second weekend of June), if everything goes according to plan.

Keep your fingers crossed for us!