51 Percent

Looking south into the living room.

Sami painted all day yesterday and finished the dining room. All that is left is refinishing the floor and adding the quarter-round molding at the baseboard, which will happen at the end of the entire project. Finally we get to see what the brick red color looks like. It will be an accent color throughout the house.

View from the front entryway.

We have found our task-by-task check list very inadequate, with some tasks missing and some tasks clumped together as one. But we have decided to keep using it as a progress gauge. We figure it is inaccurate throughout, so if we keep checking off things, it will still show us about what percent we have done and have left to do.

Sunshine between showers, looking into the back yard.

After checking off the dining room tasks, we are 51% done with our sweat equity part of the project. (we began the list the second week in January). We promised ourselves a celebration when we reach the half-way mark. So, last night we had dinner at Jake's and then saw a wonderful play; The Children of Willesden Lane, at the Gerding Theater. Wonderful music and a poignant story.