New Stairs!

As you will see in these pictures we were quite lucky to have found such a wonderful contractor as Steve.  The before picture of the stairs doesn't do justice to how unsafe and shoddy they were.  The plans as drawn only called for the replacement/straightening of the bottom four steps, but since Steve is a skilled stairbuilder he was unable to compromise his professional integrity, so he rebuilt the entire staircase.  Not only did we get a solid, professionally constructed staircase, which we'll now cover with carpet, but because of the new angle of the stairs we gained headroom on the stairs to the basement.  We may have to consider redoing the basement stairs now. 

Insulators come on Monday to insulate the second floor, and the sheetrockers will follow soon thereafter.  The electrician will be back early next week to finish up the first floor so the insulators and sheetrockers can come back and finish up.  Steve is cleaning out the house of all tools and supplies so we'll get some good pictures this weekend.