We planned a craft room for the kids from the start. The idea was to contain the mess stuff to a single room where we didn’t care as much if paint got spilled, etc. When we finished construction, the room was unfinished. In the last month, we built out the room with Ikea cabinets andRead more about Basement craft room[…]
It’s been almost a month since my last burst of posts, and it’s been quite a month. Frustratingly little progress in terms of what we can call complete, but lots of work going on there an there, just more slowly than we want. The estimates of our move in date keep getting pushed back. Originally,Read more about April – what a month it’s been[…]
We finally signed off on the elevator a couple of days ago – it took quite some time. For starters, we weren’t sure we wanted the expense of the elevator right now. But certain life events lead us to believe it may be useful in the next few years. Once we decided to move forward,Read more about Elevator[…]
When I had my bachelor pad, I had a fancy closet system installed. It wasn’t cheap and I wasn’t that impressed with the quality of construction and the value. So this time around, we opted instead to just have our carpenters fabricate much simpler closets out of MDF, which will then be painted. Here isRead more about Closets[…]
The tile setters have been working on the bathroom tile for a week now, with two bathrooms almost done. Quite a bit of work remains – master bath, guest bath, power room, but this is some nice progress.
It’s been about 2 1/2 weeks since the last updates, but it feels like much longer. The freeway to / from the south of us finally opened after the mudslides, and work can once again proceed as normal. Now that things are once again moving, we are making a concerted effort to shore up theRead more about Project update 2/3/18[…]
Did I mention we are having a very large fire in the area? The Thomas Fire has been burning for more than a week now. Here is what the sky looked like a couple of days ago. Despite the fire, and the associated bad air quality, we continue to make progress on the house, albeitRead more about House update – painting, window & door casing, cabinets, and permits oh my[…]
Here are a couple of neat shots looking up from the basement level. Here is the central hallway where the stairs land in the basement. Just behind the ladder is the elevator shaft. Here are two shots, one up the elevator shaft, and one up the stairwell right where the yellow bucket is sitting. AtRead more about Looking up[…]
I must admit I do have a little leg up on the average person when it comes to counter tops, as I briefly ran a stone fabrication business about a decade ago. Knowing nothing about stone fabrication at the time, I took it over and tried to stabilize it until we eventually sold the business. Read more about Stone choices[…]
We started with a crew of 2-3 guys for the first week or so. Now they have pulled in additional people and we have 5-6 guys working on the drywall. The entire second floor is almost done and they are installing the scaffolding to do the upper stairwell ceiling and walls. Here is the masterRead more about Drywall update – second floor is almost complete[…]