Garage Door and Floor

This week the garage saw some progress with the pouring of the concrete floor and the building and installation of the door. Here's how the concrete was looking just after being poured:

Once the concrete had set, work could begin on construction of the garage door which, owing to the resumption of showery weather, could be carried out in the garage. Here's Clay sanding one of the panels in preparation for the stain finish:

Here's one of the panels after being stained:

And here's how the door looks now after being installed; we went for a clear stain finish because we thought that would work best with the colour scheme we selected for the house and we liked the way the wood grain was clearly visible:

Meanwhile, inside the house the red oak for the hardwood floor has been delivered and here it is stacked up in the living room area:

We have been wrestling to close some of the decisions on internal materials and here is a smorgasbord of the samples including the upstairs carpet, the wood for Julia's studio floor, the granite for the kitchen counter, the laminates for the counters in the bathroom, laundry room, 1/2 bath, the kitchen backsplash tiles, cupboard doors, and now, the big issue of internal paint colour. The list seems never endless, but we are getting close to the bottom and we are excited about the way it seems to be coming together.

That's all for now!