Catching up.......Summer's over?

A few deliveries (and cash withdrawals) hit us right before our summer beach trip.  Our mini-split air conditioner and our cabinets.  Much of the information that I wanted prior to wiring and plumbing this unit was not readily available online. So I had to get the thing in my hands even though it won't be fully connected for a few months. 

The photo on the top is what we'd hoped to end up with according to our plan for a 20" range. Once the cabinets were in place there was little debate about removing a cabinet to gain a 30" range. So the photo on the bottom is what the placement will be once the under cabinet flooring is complete. We lost a good deal of storage, but gained a ton of flexibility for appliance options. And or skillets can go side by side. 

After that, we went to the beach in our other trailer! We stayed at Fort Pickens National park outside Pensacola, FL  for 6 days with our good friends. It was a great decompression time right before school started.

After returning, I was eager to get our new A/C mocked up. 

And mock up turned into.....

Completion! Turning the thing on should be as simple as a few wiring connections and a few compression fittings for coolant. It was nice to finally get to seal up this wall and say that I am DONE with wallboards.

There's been a lot of uncertainty about finish flooring the last several months. We finally decided to use  1/2" baltic birch cabinet grade plywood over the existing 1/2" subfloor.  It comes in 5'x5' sheets, and so we toyed with several length and width options, settling on 15" wide, 60" long planks. They are glued down and nailed around the perimeter with a 1/32" - 1/8" gap between planks.  I got this section complete last night to prepare for cabinet installation soon. The benefit of covering up our new flooring with cabinets is that we get to try out several finishes before it's hidden away forever. We did a few samples of whitewash at different ratios as well as whatever stains I had left over from other projects. No to whitewash. No to any leftover stains.  Looks like it's time for Cassie to get some   PAINT TESTERS!!