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The finish carpenter has been hard at work framing out all the windows. He also has started finishing the stairs. Here's our stair post now wrapped in hemlock:


Outside, the posts on our front porch are wrapped in a similar manner:


Our garage doors came this week, so now the house is completely closed, including the garage. We'll be painting the garage doors a light brown:



We have finalized our outside paint colors, so the house should be painted fairly soon, if we can get a few days without rain. Stuart and I also went to a flooring store and started making some choices on carpet, linoleum flooring for the bathrooms and mud room, and Formica for our countertops. These are not easy choices -- there are about a million different colors and designs.