Clapboards start to go on!

Happy August 1!  In addition to our regular crew, we now have two men putting the siding (clapboards) on the house.  It takes a lot of precise measuring since we have so many windows and doors, so only parts of the back of the house are finished, but it looks wonderful already!  The clapboards came with two coats of solid stain on them (Nantucket White) and will be painted with a final coat once the siding is completed.  The "white" trim you can see in the photos will be painted dark green to match the windows.  We've also had more painting done inside the house which looks terrific, and we are starting to move some furniture around in anticipation of a move out of the basement on or around August 15, the day Eliza returns from summer camp. 


It's lovely to see the clapboards going on as they
look much tidier than Tyvek!





Soapstone counters arrive!



Cherry butcher block counter arrives from California...

Butcher block on its way into the house...



Ta-dah!  There's our island with its counter top!




Midway (a.k.a the Rose Room) gets a fresh
coat of paint (will be our family office).




Not a great photo of the family room color,
but the Georgian Green looks very nice on the walls.



The kitchen 1/2 bath is now
Van Deusen blue!  The marble
sink came from the bathroom
in the maids' wing that was
demolished.



The Game Room (a.k.a. the Willow Room) ceiling
had been badly damaged when pipes in the
bathroom above froze a long time ago, so the
ceiling was taken down.  Stay tuned as this
room is going to look quite interesting -- we
are trying to figure the best way to keep some
of the wonderful old beams exposed!



This is our electrician, Dermot, taking
out the very outdated recessed
lighting in the dining room -- we
all gathered around because
we'd never seen anything like it!



Here's Jim with one of the old recessed lights...



Caleb was at Chewonki for
3 1/2 weeks (he lived in
Quarter Deck) but is back home now.



Eliza as Lucy (in You're a Good Man, Charlie
Brown) during Visitors' Weekend at Alford
Lake Camp.  She'll be home August 15!