House occupied, though not quite completed...

WARNING: Guest blogger alert! Heather here. Reporting on the dogged progress of the elusive LenMar House!

I was up a couple of weeks ago on a frequent flyer ticket (you can't beat a ticket for $7.50!) while John was in Daytona for the weekend.

A brief update. The folks moved in on a temporary certificate of occupancy and haven't looked back! The old house isn't quite empty. Rob and Pete were living there. Pete still is, actually, while he works in a lab job this summer. Yep, he's gonna cure cancer one day, but in the meantime he works in a lab and occasionally goes on rounds with the docs and is still living in the old house. Good thing because the lawn would take over like in a horror movie!

Anyway, here is the pictorial update on the new house. Keep in mind these are candid and reflect the "just moved in clutter" that naturally occurs.

If you came in through the garage, you would end up in the laundry room. Through the door is the kitchen. Note the pink moving day tag on the file cabinet. You'll see a few of those.

To the right of the washer and dryer is a half bath. Still waiting on the mirror, but now with added privacy bonus of a shade! Now anyone on the driveway can't see things they shouldn't.

From the kitchen this is the view of the great room (the "living room" half specifically, the other half is "dining room"). The giant fan above the couch and the plethora of windows makes the room really comfortable and breezy.

This is the kitchen as viewed from the great room. Just to the left out of the picture is the laundry room and the pantry. Just to the right out of the picture is the hallway to the bedrooms.

The pantry is enormous. (Imagine "enormous" in a slightly Scottish accent and John laughing his head off at me for being unable to pronounce normally! Hiccups destroy me...) It has two, very large, 6' tall rolling shelf carts to store things on. Very nice.

On down the hall. On the right, the first door is the guest bedroom. Likely to be the Pete Crash Pad during the school year.

Just across the hall from the guest bedroom is, appropriately, the guest bathroom, replete with chair for bathroom coaching. If you're like me and don't need any backseat driving while in the bathroom the chair functions well as a "set your stuff here while you take a shower" chair.

Just steps further down the hall and your reach the master bedroom door. You can't see it but there is another window on the wall on the left. The wall on the right has a big old dresser. This room hasn't been painted yet, but when complete it will have lovely purple gray walls like the bathroom below.

This is obviously just the shower, the big news on this being all the natural stone has been sealed and it is now usable! To the right, out of the picture, is a window, a big jacuzzi tub, another window, then 2 sinks, then a toilet room with a window.

The master bedroom has a walk-in closet as well. There is a window in there too! This picture only shows the left half. The right half bulges out a little bit and has a large IKEA closet unit in it.

And now on to the basement! It is largely unfinished. Those earlier posts of Norah and Kitty riding trikes around on the concrete still apply. The only room that is done is the office. To the right out of the picture is a double bookcase. 2 enormous windows! How will he ever get anything done with so much to look at!

The picture above shows the sunset over the hockey swamp from the dining room table. A week or so after this was taken, during family reunion, the grading was done on the yard. So it looked less weedy, more even, but still retained it's "possible amateur hockey rink in winter" appeal.

Well, that's all for this time. Stay tuned ....