Progress!

Things are happening quickly now. We have the solar panels installed (see photo above), the handicapped parking space is paved, the trim is painted, and the siding will get painted if it ever stops raining. The interior is coming along nicely: all the walls are painted, the cabinets are installed in 3 rooms, the floors are being installed right now, and the lights are almost all installed. Integrity Floors, M&W Electric, Pacific Design Cabinets,ProTek painting, and others to be named later have really done a fine job. The Inkwell has given us a good price on new chairs for the conference room.

Now the bad news: our landscaper had to back out due to a health problem! It's spring, so trying to find a landscaper now is pretty hard. The good ones are booked, but a few gave us a bid anyway - obscenely high! So we've hired someone to install the pavers on the 3 parking spaces and the patio, but it looks like we'll be doing the irrigation installation and the landscaping ourselves - something we really don't have time to fit in, but what choice do we have? In the interest of time & money we've gutted the beautiful design that Beth Young created. I hate to do that, but we plan to implement her design at a later date (when we've recovered financially!).

We've changed the exterior colors. Originally we were going with off-white siding with green trim but when I photoshopped those colors we realized that there's so much trim on the front porch that it wound up looking heavy. So now the siding will be a medium sand color with lighter tan trim. Should look great!