Finally, something to see

I don't even remember now what day we bought our house, but I believe it was June 5th or 6th.  Yep, nearly 7 months ago.

Every time we have a conversation with someone who we don't talk to regularly, we get the question, "So how's the house?'  I guess seven months in, people would expect us to have it, you know, inhabitable and decorated and hosting dinner parties every night.  Obviously these people don't know the life of two people who work more than full-time, are doing 98% of the work themselves, and have other competing priorities simultaneously filling up our lives.  Or what a house looks like when you buy it from an old couple that literally did NOTHING to it in the thirty years that they lived in it.

So when M completely re-roofed the dormer, put in a new window and put new siding on said dormer, no one "ooohed and aahhhhed" because it's a freaking dormer and really boring.  And when we painted the dining room and entry way, that was cool, but the floors still needed to be refinished and the kitchen was (is) still a ghastly sight, which sort of ruins it for the nearby rooms.

But FINALLY there's something that people can see, and ooh and ahh and begin to picture what the house will look like when it's done.  Now it's just one room (and he hasn't put the wax (?) on the floor over the stain yet) but M spent his day refinishing the floor in the first guest room.  And it is looking pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.

Granted, he still has to do more to it and then we have to prime the walls again and paint them and paint the closet door and reattach the radiator covers, but, friends, THIS is finally something I feel good showing to people. 

Seven months later, it feels like we're on the verge of things coming together.  Expect a dinner party invite sometime in 2013!