Exterior:
Let's start with the drama. Last post there were night pictures of the exterior sconces. Here are some daylight ones. I got a little wacky with the camera angles.
This is the guest room and front porch.
This is the great room and back porch.
This is down the south side of the house.
This is the fireplace. 
This is the west side of the shop and the pedestrian door.
This is the shop deck stair wall.
And this is a garden feature I hope we can have. It's a bottle tree from Caroline's place in Johnson City, TX (next door to my cousin, Ronna). She sent me a link to an online vendor of trees and bottles, but I like hers the best. It just kind of sprouts out of the flowers.
A few posts ago I confidently put a picture of the loveseats we were going to have in the great room. I waited to order them until Crate & Barrel started its custom furniture sale. When I found out that instead of being the same price as using the standard fabric for the loveseat we picked, each one was going to cost almost double -- on sale, yet -- I started looking again. Joan and I went to the Penney's Home store and found something even better and within budget, so I ordered 2 sofas and 2 ottomans this past week.The fabric above is for the sofas and the fabric below is for the ottomans.
And this is the sofa I picked. It's much more traditional than the Crate & Barrel one and bigger, but I think it will look better and it's definitely more comfortable. It's called the Arcadia and is made by Broyhill, but I couldn't find it online either at Broyhill or at Penney's.
Since it is bigger, I had to rearrange the great room furniture layout a bit. We still don't have all the pieces we need, like the side tables, but we'll get there. I checked yesterday and so far at least I've spent much less on furniture and decoration than I budgeted.
Kitchen:
A few things happened in the kitchen this week. One was the positioning of the cooktop. When I selected this GE Monogram, I chose it because every burner is adjustable from high to low. I didn't really notice that the front was curved like the front of the rangehood until Dave put it in the hole.
Speaking of holes, this is the one for the kitchen sink. 
And here are the drawer fronts and doors on the island.
Baths and mechanicals:
This is a detail from the linen closet door. This was the last piece of tin punching Trout did and he really got wild and crazy and very detailed. We got barrels, we got saguaros, we got bird holes in the saguaros and they are blooming.
This is the floor of the master shower, ungrouted.
This is Trout's vanity with the sink in, but ungrouted.
This shows his light fixtures. A very tall arched mirror will be between them and will cover up the box in the middle.
That's the hot water heater on the left and the water softener on the right. There will also be a recirculating pump that will keep the hot water on the ready for all the baths. I thought this was a bit of an extravagance at first and then read it is actually considered to be an environmentally sound thing down here because you don't have to run the water for a long time before the hot comes through.
Last post I had a picture of the guest bath vanity lights and how odd they looked. They have now all been reversed and they are much better. 
And the blessed toilets. They aren't functional yet, but there is hope. This is the one in the guest bath.
And this is the one in the master bath. Please note that they are the same color and the walls are the same color -- but not in these pictures!
This is the one in the shop bath. It is white and is a different brand.
So that's what's new for Week 60 of the project. The next update won't be until September 14th at the earliest. Have a great Labor Day.
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