SNEAK PEAK....

The painter has been hard at work for a couple of weeks.  The inside trim is completely finished and looks amazing!  The lift you see in the picture is borrowed and must go back to its owner in 2 weeks, so the painter is taking advantage and painting the highest parts of the house while we still have it.  The gable is grayish-green and looks great with the white trim (and the "K").  The rest of the house will be a lighter version of this green.

I can hardly wait to turn the lights on in the parlor at night, get in my truck and drive in front of our house to look at our front door!  This picture doesn't do it justice.

I also hope to  open this door and find some Knight descendants on the other side!

This is the antique window above the landing that leads upstairs.  We bought it a few years ago, hoping it would fit somewhere someday.  And so it did! 

You can see how beautiful the stained trim is!  The balusters will be painted white and finials will be added to each newel post.

Our finials are made from bun feet (for furniture).

Everything old is new again... Remember how these huge pocket doors were painted white?  Now, they are back to beautiful!  We've used the same guy for years, when we've needed something stripped and refinished.  He always does wonderful work.  He actually just stripped these for us.  Our painter stained them when he did the rest of the woodwork.  

We used the pocket doors upstairs with the tracks on the outside.

Rick finished these stairs today.  Look at the ceiling of the back porch.  That's the original siding from the house.  The steps going straight off the back porch are going to be round.  

Totally unrelated to house restoration, but cute nonetheless.

Chevy.