Quick Update

Just wanted to make a quick update to the world. First of all, the winner of the stain contest turned out to be "Maple". I realize that, technically, "Pecan" won the poll by 2 votes, but I'm pretty certain you all would have voted for Maple had you had access to the real-life samples they have at Lowe's. The Maple looks great with both the floor and the mantel. Also, August did the staining this time and it looks much better than my work. I suppose I will remain in my roll as "assistant", all the way to the end.

The cabinets are coming along as well. We lack two face-frames from being done with the construction part of all the floor cabinets. We'll probably crank those out today and tomorrow. After that, we have to route a groove into some of the frames, which will require us to first setup and learn to use the router. And then the sanding/staining, and then assemble.

And that means we are roughly approaching the half-way point. That's no so bad, eh?