I kept telling myself that we weren’t moving in until we were completely finished with everything. I didn’t want to live in the house during construction. But, we have decided to do just that. We aren’t far from being complete, but there are some things that will take some time. Our interior doors and 2 of our gates arrive next week. The granite for the main kitchen arrived today and that will hopefully be installed in the next day or two. So as of today, we lack interior doors, countertops (everywhere), and sinks (everywhere). We do have power, water and internet, which are all the essentials. In the end, it made financial sense for us to do this now.
Needless to say, the stress has kicked up a notch over the past weeks. We have had some bad experiences with some of our suppliers and some of our hired contractors. Hired help goes missing, scheduled deliveries do not show, etc. But soon this will be over. One of our friends, Jouni, has been helping finish quite a few things on the house since early November. Without him we would probably another month away from moving in. He has helped so much. Jouni is a jeweler by trade, but decided to take some time away from that business and has become my utility guy. I had the hardest time trying to find somebody with experience installing garage doors. In the end I handed it to Jouni. He figures things out. Thanks Jouni for alleviating some of that stress.
Also a shout out to Mike and Laura for stopping by in August and again last week on their trips to St. Croix to check on our progress. That bottle of champagne will be opened on Friday. 🙂
I had promised to post photos from October through December when I got some time, but instead of doing that right now here are a few photos from this week.
Desperately waiting for that sigh of relief.
A few older photos: