The clerestory window in great room

Well Lights

These lights are installed in the floor in the great room and light up the posts between the french doors.

Baseboard Assembly Line

Progress in Master Suite

The freestanding tub is stored temporarily in the bedroom, it will end up in front of the window where Seb and Femmy are standing. We have the world's longest vanity with lots of drawers and his and her sinks eventually. The counter will be white caesar stone called blizzard and the sinks are American Standard undermount studio sinks. Faucets will be Grohe atrio style.

Some updated kitchen shots...

Kitchen is well underway. There is still a crown moulding and a kick plate around the base to install but they will be done later. We've had a number of issues with the kitchen counter supplier but the kitchen company (who subcontracted to them) is doing a good job of managing through. The kitchen will be covered up again as soon as the next counter work is done. You can also see the built in fridge here. The foreground of the room shot shows a bunch of baseboards that have been primed and are ready for installation.

The Master Designer & The Master Tiler

This is Irene Langlois and Frank. I dont' know Frank's last name. But he's an artist of tile.

Before putting tile on the walls of the master shower, Frank sorted all of the pieces by colour and pattern. Then he laid out an experimental pattern before installing.

What you might not be able to notice due to pic quality is that the pattern goes from busiest at the bottom to plainer at the top of the shower, its a very cool effect when you see it in front of you. The tile is called Arabascata and its a creamy white background with grey, black and sometimes tan veining. There is also a lot of variety in the tile as you can see here.

Bad cat

This is Murphy, in the dishwasher. He will stop at nothing when it comes to food.

A Crate of Slate

Many people have heard about how Seb shopped around for a good price on slate and ended up buying a whole container of it. Then we hired a highly recommended tile master named Frank. And we followed our designer's recommendation on pattern and went with a classic (but complicated) style of herringbone. This involves many angles as does the footprint of our house but the results are amazing.

A close up of the herringbone pattern taken in master suite:



The window seat (without actual seat) in master:



The master suite in progress:



And finished...

Slowly but surely...

The Pink Room - Seb wanted to have a pink guest room and a blue guest room for our nieces and nephews. I of course want an all white (or white on white) palette. So we compromised with pale pink and pale blue. The blue is great but the think leaves something to be desired... You'll also notice a block of wood embedded in the wall - this is holding up the screen porch roof - so it will make for an interesting night table "feature".


Seb in the Blue Room. Big changes are finished ceilings, the primer, and the pine floors.


This is from the loft looking into the two bedrooms.


This is Reilly, one of the guys on the construction team. This is the great room which also has new pine floors.


And here is one of the best rooms in the house, the one over the garage... It has the best light with south and west windows.