Baseboards started

This is my closet floor baseboards -- INSTALLED -- first room in the house! Can't do much more until door moldings are delivered. We picked a shoe molding that is a little prettier than the standard one you see in every house. Still will need caulking & touch up, but what a nice look - LOVE IT!

The part that ruined Christmas Break

So much free time over Christmas break and so many plans to get so much work completed -- wasted waiting on this part to the chimney to arrive in the mail (arrived 4 weeks after it was ordered!!!) This tardy "offset" made us have to spend family time together over the holiday instead of working -- it was amazing though... Thank you, "offset" for giving us family time together!!!

Inside the Chimney

Here I am looking up the chimney -- it is more than 20 feet up there!!! see the steps he installed on the left:
Today he is putting the chimney inside the chimney. Because we have the completely enclosed fireplace, a silver tube runs up the chimney to let out the smoke. Maybe this is how all fireplaces work, but I have never seen inside a chimney before to know!

Here is the hole he has climbed in and out about a hundred times today:

Here he is climbing up to put the chimney together: