Painted Trim and Carpet

They finally painted the trim around the windows as well as the stripping on the edge of the roof (which was supposed to be black but was installed incorrectly in white).

I think it gives our house much more of the wooden-siding look we were going for.

Unfortunately, it must have been too cold by the time they painted the metal stripping (the very front edge of the roof) because it began to peel within days. :( But ... there is some weird waviness in the lower shingling on the roof anyway. They might need to replace the entire bottom half of the roof, so ... they can probably just replace the stripping when they do that?

Of course, I don't know that any of that can be done in the weather we are heading into. 

Even so, we are, in theory, getting very close to moving in. (Close-ish.) We've even got carpet! (And it's probably best I leave you with the excitement of carpet and leave out the host of small things that still need fixed--a pocket door that does not seem right at all, window ledges that need fixed, re-sheet rocked areas that need repainted, etc. etc. etc.)

Here we are on the Sunday before Christmas. We'd come over after church to see the new carpet. The rental has all wood floors and, as you know, only a small living room area for a rug, so a full swathe of uninterrupted carpet to roll about in seemed to affect them much like land affects someone who has spent a year at sea.

(The picture below is of the only three of us who looked Christmassy for Christmas church.)

(In the photo above, you can see the areas needing repainted around the girls' windows.)

(Did you know that windows that are black on the outside and the inside are far more expensive than windows that are only black on the outside? Well. It's true. I actually would have preferred black on all the interior windows, but it was too much, so we went with white; however, through a series of window mistakes the boys ended up with not only an extra window in their room--they have three when originally they were only going to have two--but with all their windows being black inside and out. Lucky them.)