Remodeling update

Right now, we are in remodeling hell.  The only room that is finished and looks nice is the bathroom.

Literally every other room in the house is a mess.  Our bedroom is because I have not had time to vacuum and there are dust bunnies everywhere threatening to grow into dust bears.  The sewing room is strewn with tubs and stuff needing to go into the closet but there is a ladder there instead - James, our contractor, is waiting for warmer weather to use it to climb up into the attic to cut a vent hole for the bathroom vent.  Evidently, all these years, the vent just sent steamy air up into the attic!!!  The family history room is semi-normal but only just today because until yesterday, it was full of tubs waiting to go to the storage unit we rented.  The living room has plastic over everything while James paints the popcorn ceiling.  It is only about 2/3rds done.  The floor is littered with little pieces of the ceiling.  The dining room was painted  the Saturday morning before I left for Arizona.  Below is a photo of Steve painting.  But, nothing else has been done since because James had to paint that ceiling as well as the kitchen's.  Ultimately, new flooring will be installed in those two rooms but Steve and I have the next step which is to paint the kitchen walls that are currently patched and waiting for us to do that tomorrow.  The floor is spotted with ceiling paint but, since it will be replaced, no worries. We are still waiting on the countertop to be installed as well as the new sink.  

The two north bedrooms downstairs have dry wall repair debris all over the place.  The washer and dryer in the laundry room are askew (but still functional, thank goodness) as one of the walls had to be repaired.  The room I used as my studio has about 10 16-foot strips of molding that have been painted and are awaiting installation downstairs.  THAT won't happen until Steve and I paint the walls.  The 3/4 bathroom downstairs - the boat bathroom - was painted by Steve and me on Friday.  Primer and the first coat - coat #2 will happen tomorrow.  We had to paint over cheap paneling so it was especially tedious - not to mention cramped.  The family room, until yesterday, was crammed full of our storage but we had help moving most of it to a 10 X 20 storage unit nearby.  We had two shifts - 10-12 and 2-4 and miraculously, people showed up and we got it done.  Now we can move around in that room and get it painted.  Everything in the downstairs has to be ready for the carpet layers on March 23rd.  I still have four trees to prune and it is getting warmer so yard work will need to resume.They say it is always darkest before the dawn and that is where we are right now.  I know things will get better and, eventually, we will be on the other side of this project so I just hold on and do what I can do every day.