This is the view into the bedroom from the door to the shower room.

On the other side of the bedroom, a short hallway leads to a window seat with a view of the back yard.

Looking down the hallway from the bedroom, the doors to the shower room and laundry room are on the left, with the door to the walk-in closet on the right.

Window seat with storage.

The walk-in closet measures about 9½ × 9½ feet. Straight ahead is a wall of shelves.

Closet west wall.

The left-hand side has hanging space for long items, along with shelves for shoes and folded clothing.

Closet south wall.

On the right there are two levels of bars for short hanging items. The uppers bars swing down for easy access. There is more space in this closet than we will ever need!

Closet north wall.

Step one was to remove the old concrete, a noisy activity that took most of a day.

The concrete guys working hard to remove the old front walk.

The old, badly cracked front walk is no more.

The old concrete has been removed from the driveway and a grid of rebar added.

On the second day, rain delayed the start of concrete pouring, but the guys made up for lost time.

Many wheelbarrow loads were needed to bring the concrete where it was needed.

Using a screed to smooth the front walk.

Smoothing out the new driveway — a painstaking job.

Outside the new back door of our home, the contractor poured a sloping concrete pad to make exiting the house easier.

Back door pad being prepared for concrete.

Concrete poured for the back door pad.

Our new bathroom is a joy. As a reminder, we gutted the original master bath and enlarged it to include a new accessible shower.

Speaking of the shower, here it is!

The new shower works great!

The tile expert from our builder constructed the built-in seat (inside the shower) with a slight downward pitch so that it sheds water toward the drain. Outside the shower, the teak transfer seat is a great place to sit while drying off after showering. It folds up against the wall if necessary, but so far we have left it in the “down” position.

Shower controls.

The shower controls are easily reached from the seat. The small upper control is a diverter that sends the flow of water to either the handheld shower head or to the main shower head on the left (not pictured). The sturdy grab bar doubles as a handy holder for wash clothes.

Looking back into the main part of the master bath, we have a nice new tub that we probably won’t use very often. It’s gorgeous, but we both prefer showering.

We may never use the new bathtub, but it’s beautiful nevertheless.

The mosaic tile trim around the tub matches the trim in the shower.

The master bath has a double vanity with a “tower” in the middle to store toiletries.

Double vanity with storage tower.

The toilet features a curvy grab bar and a storage cubby — a good place to stash reading material.

Toilet with curved grab bar and storage cubby.

More closet components are unpacked.

In the closet itself, Chad from Wesson is hard at work.

The walk-in closet assembly progresses.

In the addition, the new carpet was laid in the bedroom and a few pieces of furniture return at last to their proper places.

The bedroom carpet is in!

By the end of the day, however, the bedroom was filled with boxes containing the organizers for the walk-in closet, so we won’t be sleeping in the bedroom just yet.

Boxes of closet organizers.

Chad from Wesson added some nice trim to the window seat, and then the painters went to work. It’s just what we wanted.

The window seat with a coat of paint.

Overall, the bedroom is really taking shape.

Bedroom progress: carpet closet doors, HVAC registers, recessed lights.

We’ve been waiting for delivery of some trim pieces for the bathtub area. It finally arrived, along with the tub fixtures, so that area is finished except for final paint.

The bathtub tile matches the new shower.

The insulators blew insulation into the attic above the addition and added some extra insulation to the older parts of the house as well. Along with the new HVAC system, the house should now be comfortable year round. No more cold offices in the winter; no more sweating in the family room.

Knobs and pulls have been installed in the laundry and master bath. We went with simple, nickel satin knobs all around, as opposed to more ornate hardware.

Knobs are installed in the laundry room.

Master bath knobs.

In the accessible shower, all of the controls for the handheld shower have now been installed. Drilling through the brand new tile to mount the fixtures is nerve-wracking for the plumber!

Fixtures for the handheld shower.

Window seat in master suite hallway.

The guys also completed repairs on a crack in the ceiling of the quilt studio and thoroughly cleaned up the areas of new construction, all in preparation for the return of the painters later this week.

In addition, the new toilet in the guest bathroom is now functional, replacing the old one which had seen better days.

The new ceiling medallions are now on hand so the electrician can install the replacement ceiling fixtures in the living room.

Medallions for ceiling fixtures in living room.

We are awaiting delivery of two pocket doors for the addition. The first two that we received were warped, so new ones had to be ordered.

He connected and tested a new phone line for the bedroom, added a quad outlet near my workbench in the garage, installed a cable TV box in the bedroom, and installed the bedroom ceiling fan.

Bedroom ceiling fan.

He removed the old ceiling fan in the living room but did not have a new ceiling medallion. So for the moment, we have this instead of our new fan:

The new ceiling fan in the living room will go here.

Breaker panel on Thursday morning.

To this:

Breaker panel on Friday afternoon. No more dangling wires!

The new circuits are all connected. All of the new outlets and switches are in place and working.

Plumbing fixtures are now installed in the master bath.

Master bath faucet.

Master bath toilet.

In the guest bathroom, the new vanity is in place but without its faucet. And the new light fixture has been installed. The room still needs to be painted.

New vanity in guest bathroom.

In the laundry room, all of the wall cabinets are installed.

Cabinets in laundry room.

Barn door track.

Matt, one of Wesson’s cabinet makers, made the large door by joining together two 30″ hollow core doors and mounted rollers along the top.

Barn door roller.

Then Lynda (assisted by yours truly) placed two layers of fabric — cotton batting and gray flannel — on the doors and cut them to size.

The layers: Hollow core door, ¾” foam, white batting, gray flannel.

Fabric laid over the door.

Matt folded the fabric around to the back of the door, stretched it tight, and stapled it in place. Twenty minutes later, Lynda had the design wall of her dreams. Our thanks to Matt for understanding exactly what Lynda wanted and then making it happen.

Finished barn door / design wall.

At the other end of the house, the last unit of the master bath vanity was installed. The piece was specially modified at the Wesson shop to accommodate a wheelchair should it ever be required. The toe kick is extra high, and the doors are recessed. The doors can still be opened to access the plumbing.

Universal design vanity built for wheelchair access.

With the vanity in place the countertop was installed, followed by a storage tower for bathroom items.

Master bath vanities with storage tower.

While all this was going on, Mike the electrician was hard at work installing fixtures and outlets and wiring them into the breaker panel in the garage.