Oathbreaker

I clearly can't keep a promise.  I got back from our little trip to the country, stopped by the house before we even went home to the apartment, and took pictures with the intention of updating you guys.  Then we got back to the apartment, and this happened:

We had been incubating some eggs from guinea hens that roam our neighborhood (guineas are terrible mothers), and we came home to find three chickies had popped themselves out of the egg!  Between finding a cozy spot for them and nurturing what was eventually seven keets (baby guineas) in a 1100 square-foot third-floor apartment until we gave them to a local farm, blogging fell by the wayside.  

Somebody had a very nice pool party, before we knew it school started, and here we are, a month later, rather than a few days.  I make no excuses!  But here's what's been going on:

Living room subfloor

Upstairs hall subfloor

New beadboard on the back porch ceiling

Floorboards

Living room floors in process

Kitchen floors and extra boards

KITCHEN FLOORS! (don't you think close-ups require all caps, too?)

Breakfast nook

Living room

Giant lumber-holder

LUMBER HOLDER!

Sample trim on a window

Beautiful, beautiful kitchen cabinets and island.

RECYCLING BIN DRAWER! (That's not because it's a close-up, I'm just excited.)

Mud room lockers (with shiplap behind)

Library in process

Laundry room

Master closet

There's been some amazing carpentry going on in the Houston Heights, you guys.  Some of those lovely, lovely floorboards are ours, saved from parts of the house that got demolished, and some are reclaimed boards of the same species (red pine).  They're not sanded and stained yet, but they are lovely, and totally non-creaky, which is a new experience for me.

The stacks of lumber in the living room contributed to the trim work that's been going in, making the house look more finished each day, and a master craftsman named Jesus has been in charge of building all the cabinets and shelves for the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, pantry, and library.  It's a lot of stuff.  It's all unspeakable beautiful.  It's poplar, which I didn't know was such a pretty wood, and like everything else, I'm going to hate to paint it (though that won't stop me).  They pretty much brought all the cabinets in in one day, and it has been amazing to see.  Coming soon:  countertops and paint!