Moving countdown, and plumbing a tub.

 

 

 

 

We are moving forward! We always are, there's never any going back, but you can really see the progress. This weekend we put the tub in place. The big ole' galvanized tub got a whole cut through, a compression drain was threaded through, and fit through the hole drilled through the floor. Drilling through the floor was a little terrifying. After building so many layers of weather proofing and structural integrity, cutting straight through the five layers of floor was nerve rattling.

Here my dad drills up through the pre drilled floor hole into the tub to get the drain centered, as much as structurally possible. My feet are holding the tub down so it doesn't resist.

 

 

The tub is great. So is the reused outdoor shower cedar. I love this bathroom.

 

Here is the before picture to compliment the after! and I'm sure there will be an after after picture too.

This was when the tub came, sometime in March it looks like, judging by the snow.

 

 

Along with the inside plumbing comes the outside plumbing! We have the luxury of a well so close to our home site that we can put in a standing hydrant! Its frost free which means we can have water into the winter, at least at the well, if not the in the house.

Along with that came the propane hookup for the on demand water heater. A family friend came out to help us with the tricky stuff, and his generosity really made me appreciative to be raised here in this island community.

 

David has been working on the cabinets, and we almost finished the window seat/bookcase.

 

 

It really looks livable! places for our books, places for our crafts and tools, and check it out, window sills!

 

The window sills gave me nightmares. Really. It was one of those things that I thought so much about- all the ways it could be done, all the things I didn't know, all the things I wanted them to be. To me window sills were such a sign of completion. It makes the inside look done. Compete. Pretty and neat. They are simple, we decided to go with what we know, and they are beautiful and functional. David's family was here this weekend and we made an assembly line of window sill cutting, nailing and tongue oiling. It went so much quicker than I could have imagined!

We're moving out of where we are now, so we'll be moving into Sweetpea soon. We have a few things on our priority list that need to be done this weekend to make it possible, but its so close. There will always be projects, its part of owning a house, but by next week the projects should be small and manageable. We are of course still waiting on our awning windows, and that is a big project for sure, but those will come when they come. Before that we will replace the wood glue and chalk line in the kitchen shelves with millet and flour, and make this house into a place we live, not just work.