This marks the end of major construction. It's only been 6 months since we started. My goodness...we had no idea what this remodeling project was going to entail. There's still plenty of little things that need to get done, but we are done with contractors (thank God!) and can take our time on the rest of it. We opened our last box, so we are officially unpacked and moved in!

So, here's another little "before and after" story. In the hallway, there was this built-in desk. We were guessing it was original to the house; very quaint, but utterly useless. We ripped it out (another one of our demolition projects) and hired someone to build a custom cabinet for us. Here's the before:
And here's the "After". We had a local carpenter build a cabinet with bookshelves. Here it is already packed with books.

There's not much "in progress" pictures because we finally got smart and starting hiring the right people to do the work for us.