goodbye scaffolding

Almost all of the scaffolding has been removed from the front of the townhouse. The one remaining piece will come down early next week. It's so nice to finally see the new color next to the two existing houses.





Inside the house finish work is progressing quickly.



Our boiler has been installed...


... and plumbing fixtures are arriving on site for installation. Some of the library millwork is also on site and in place.




These have been shop primed and will be hand painted on site. Speaking of paint, we have some colors up on the top two floors. This will eventually be a child's bedroom.



Stone and tile work also continues in the master baths. Here you can see the 3x6 spring white stone tiles that just got put on the walls. Our tile guy is seriously amazing.





Soon they will also install the ipe deck at the rear garden. This is one of the purchased footings that 2x4s will sit on. Then, on top of that is the ipe.

new facade and finish work

The townhouse has finally received it's new color of stucco! Half of the house is still covered up but the color is really amazing. It actually looks a little lighter than it really is in this photo.






The detail work is still intact and very clear and sharp. This is a view of one of the parlor floor windows.

The parlor floor itself continues to progress and look amazing.







The wood floor in the library is also all in. You can also see there's some laundry millwork in the library waiting to be installed!





There are also bathroom vanities on site as well which will be installed soon too.



We have also chosen our trim and ceiling colors for the entire house: winter white and decorators white.

Although this photo may look like it's of a "no smoking" sign there is, in fact, an installed elevator cab behind that sign. It's currently stopped between floors so that no one can mess with it. It should be fully functioning by next week. You can see the huge rails that it travels on in the second photo.

ceilings and floors

The coiffured ceiling has just started taking shape on the parlor floor. You can see where they've installed some trim in one of the far portions.

Here is the view from the parlor floor looking up. Isn't the underside of the curved stair amazing?

Tile continues to be installed throughout the house. Here you can see the penny tiles in one of the third floor bathrooms.

Most exciting however is the travertine floor that's almost complete at the garden level family room and kitchen. The color is an amazing green gray.

The kitchen and family room millwork will be installed soon!

garden floor, tile, and lighting

The progress over the past week on the garden floor has been amazing. The stair landing was built, the windows and doors were installed, the raised fireplace hearth was poured today, and the temporary lighting has been removed throughout the whole house.

Tile installation is just about complete in one of the bathrooms on the third floor. The other third floor bath has it's beige wall tile up as well.

Stone tile installation has also just started in the master bathrooms. Here is a shot of one of the shower floors- spring white stone from Complete Tile.

The travertine stone floor will be put down early next week in the kitchen and family room on the garden floor.

tile, paint, and doors

The townhouse continues to look a little more finished every week! This week we saw the completion of some bathroom wall tile and some movable paint samples to carry though the house to try in different rooms and lighting.





We've also just about finished our stucco color selection for the brownstone facade. One more go-round and we should have it right. Below you can see the original house color as well as an earlier, lighter option and a darker more likely final choice.

Framing and GWB is just about complete on the garden floor. The new Marvin bi-fold doors also just got installed

How amazing do they look? There are only two more windows in the mechanical room to be installed. Early next week the travertine floor will be put down on the garden level. Kitchen cabinets shouldn't be too far after that.

tile, stucco, and stairs

Today we were able to see the very last part of the stairway getting framed out for sheetrocking. The curve will be beautiful. Can you see where the metal framing is ever so slightly away from the wooden stair at the end of the run of stairs? That is there to create a perfect meeting between the underside of the stair and the ceiling of the floor below.

Tile is also getting installed in the secondary bathrooms and very soon will be up in the master bathroom as well. This blue-gray wall tile is in one of the third floor baths. The other photo is an image of a test grout we got to look at for the master bath wall stone tiles.

Today was my first trip up the ladder on the fourth floor and into the attic! You can see it's a little dusty but the height up there is really fantastic. The other photo is simply some duct work that needs to be continued to the roof to vent the bathrooms and kitchen range hood.

We are also just about ready to "paint" the front of the townhouse with a special coating from Edison Coatings. The "paint" chemically bonds to the existing stucco making a concrete-like surface with our chosen color on it. Of course it will still have the texture of the existing brownstone stucco as well. Here is a bit of re-stuccoing they're doing along side the parlor floor entry door.

stone and trim work

All the bluestone work has been completed at our rear garden. The herringbone pattern on the ground, the stairs, and the capping of all the retaining walls really pulls the whole area together.

Ceiling and window trim continues to be installed through out the house. This beam detail was particularly exciting to see today.

Almost all the windows on the top three floors are cased.

We also were able to see the master bathroom walls closed up for the first time. The different colors of GWB perform different jobs (water resistant, fire retardant, etc).

Framing is also just about complete on the garden level. It's going to be such an improvement to walk down the stairs someday soon and see white GWB everywhere. Maybe even next week... !