Day Seven-twenty-six: We're done

Well, it's been a long (long, long) time coming--begun in August in fact--but we've finally finished the kitchen. This week we put on our customary five coats of primer, paint, and sealer on the new shelves and installed them this morning. The more block-ish design really fits the rest of the kitchen better, not to mention they're actually the right color now.

A week before our second anniversary and we're really done with all the projects that we needed to do. Sure there are some fiddles around the margins (e.g. a new exhaust fan for the bathroom) and a few repeat projects looming (e.g. refinishing the deck with a better product), but mostly we're moving into the "projects of choice" phase (e.g. a wall of bookshelves for the library). It's a pretty good feeling.