Well, as predicted, things have ground to a halt on the house.  Nothing happened at the house this week that I could tell, unfortunately.

I met with the cabinet guy yesterday to go over the kitchen and master bath cabinetry.  Though it will be months before any cabinetry is installed, just the thought of it makes me so happy.  As an interior designer who designs a lot of kitchens, and as someone who thoroughly enjoys cooking and baking, I have put more time into perfecting this kitchen than perhaps any other space I’ve ever designed.  I can’t wait to be in this space, whipping up a new recipe (likely from a Barefoot Contessa cookbook) for dinner with my family.

Probably about 6 more months until that’s a reality.

I’ll just be over here at the corner of the property, dreaming about gatherings of family and friends until then.

In the meantime, Josh and my dad have been working on securing the perimeter. Josh discovered that our neighbor along our tree line was perhaps unclear on the actual boundary of his property.  We’re giving him the benefit of the doubt, but as he was clearing his entirely wooded property, he cleared almost 20 feet onto our side of the tree line. So, over the course of the past two weekends, Josh and my dad have put up metal stakes and wire along the property boundary to help make it clear.

Not the most beautiful thing, but effective.  It’s hidden by the trees from our side.

Along that same side of our property, past the tree line, there is another neighboring property that has recently sold.  We spotted some markers we think indicate a building envelope so we are being proactive and planning a four rail fence along that shared boundary.  It will tie into our neighbor’s fence on the West side of our property, shown here:

As they say, good fences make good neighbors.