We have carpet!

Dad installed carpeting today in all three of the kids' bedrooms. It's a wonderfully dark tan color. I think it's perfect for a child's room. It should hide any stains nicely. 

Roll Bar "Full Throttle" is the carpet

Flooring, closets, and fans! (Oh my!)

The weekend has been a BUSY one for the house project. Not only did we paint the bedrooms, but we installing closet shelving in the kids' rooms, ceilings fans, outlets, and the flooring in the master.

Little Miss Sunshine's closet

LMS' ceiling fan

Miss Attitude's closet

Miss Attitude's ceiling fan

Little Man's closet

Little Man's ceiling fan

The flooring we chose for the master and the great room

Master ceiling fan

Floor joists

Today DH and MD got the floor joists done for everywhere except where the stairwell to the basement is. They even got some of the plywood subflooring down! (I know these posts are sparse in words, but really, the pictures tell the story.)

 Getting the first few joists upright and nailed into place!

 Different view of getting the first few joists nailed into place.

 They are almost all in at this point. That's DH standing in the crawlspace and MD standing on a ladder on the far side of the basement wall. Those boards were HEAVY!

 Starting to work on the subfloor! They are being glued AND nailed down.

See. Got that nailer going!

The center beam is in!

Today was a long day. DH cut the additions floor joists to size. Then DH, MD, MM, and I all worked to create and place the main center beam. That thing was HUGE! It's comprised of three side-by-side 2x2x18 plants of Yellow Pine. I thought we were going to drop it on ourselves several times. Luckily, we didn't. Tomorrow, we'll finish anchoring the beam in and install the floor joists. Who knows, if we do this fast enough, we might even be able to get the plywood down onto the floor joists! Here's hoping!

 My Dad putting on the sill and the sill seal. (Try saying 'sill seal' five times fast.)

 The floor joists! They aren't installed just yet, but they are in place to be attached to the center beam.

 Little Man rocking his ear protection.

The center beam going in. In order: My Mom, Hubby, My Dad, Me

We've got wood!

Today was our first shipment of wood! It's just enough to do the floor deck and build the main frame for the walls. More wood will be delivered soon. The trusses are supposed to be delivered in 2 weeks, so we've got a LOT of work to do between now and then.