We went with blue, the grey-blue, #6226 to be exact. They started painting the main color today. The exterior painters also painted the first coat on the porch ceiling, a traditional sky blue.
Monday, November 7, 2011
BLUE
We went with blue, the grey-blue, #6226 to be exact. They started painting the main color today. The exterior painters also painted the first coat on the porch ceiling, a traditional sky blue.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
The Outside
Paul showed me how to post to the circus, so here I am!
We finally picked a color to paint the outside of the house from the selection shown in this cell-phone photo.
Guess what we picked!? We're planning on white trim and grey window frames, with grey shutters if they ever get replaced.
The house has been sanded and primed, and Ella is not happy with the primed house color. Arriving home one day, she asked her grandma "why is my house white, I don't want a white house!" and proceeded to cry about it.
But it won't be white for that much longer...
We finally picked a color to paint the outside of the house from the selection shown in this cell-phone photo.
Guess what we picked!? We're planning on white trim and grey window frames, with grey shutters if they ever get replaced.
The house has been sanded and primed, and Ella is not happy with the primed house color. Arriving home one day, she asked her grandma "why is my house white, I don't want a white house!" and proceeded to cry about it.
But it won't be white for that much longer...
Progress pics!
Time to post up some progress pics since this past week has seen tangible changes (not that the stuff you won't see every day isn't tangible...)
The drywall is up finally!
Me and my neighbor's cousin tiled the downstairs:
What's that on the walls you say?? The cabinets started going up!!
Making progress in the bathrooms
Fireplace
Oh, and the exterior is primered, set for paint this week....
Ella was very helpful with the roller.
And she loves her baby brother!
The drywall is up finally!
Me and my neighbor's cousin tiled the downstairs:
Monday, October 31, 2011
Maybe we're in the middle now?
Like the title says, maybe....
So after the last post, we had a near two week total slowdown of progress due to waiting around for the sheetrock, and then waiting around some more while it takes way longer than expected.
In the meantime, we ended up tearing down every single wall of the house which we should have done in the first place, we've got both front and rear doors re-glassed and lockable, we've got the cement board down everywhere we'll be laying tile, we're in the process of going over each window and door sanding and prepping for primer, we've got the exterior sanded and actually began primer today.
Presently on the interior, the sheetrock is finally almost done, and we can move into the more "final" finishing stages.
Probably though we need a minor miracle to happen, because I really have no idea how we're going to be ready to accept our home goods on the 11th of November. Maybe the trim-out will start by thursday or friday, depending how long that takes as well as painting it all will determine when we can finally sand the floors and move in.....stay tuned folks!
Totally gutted, plus notice the 5 tiny windows we added above the cabinets:
stacks of drywall waiting to be hung:
Eating outdoors:
So after the last post, we had a near two week total slowdown of progress due to waiting around for the sheetrock, and then waiting around some more while it takes way longer than expected.
In the meantime, we ended up tearing down every single wall of the house which we should have done in the first place, we've got both front and rear doors re-glassed and lockable, we've got the cement board down everywhere we'll be laying tile, we're in the process of going over each window and door sanding and prepping for primer, we've got the exterior sanded and actually began primer today.
Presently on the interior, the sheetrock is finally almost done, and we can move into the more "final" finishing stages.
Probably though we need a minor miracle to happen, because I really have no idea how we're going to be ready to accept our home goods on the 11th of November. Maybe the trim-out will start by thursday or friday, depending how long that takes as well as painting it all will determine when we can finally sand the floors and move in.....stay tuned folks!
Totally gutted, plus notice the 5 tiny windows we added above the cabinets:
stacks of drywall waiting to be hung:
Eating outdoors:
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Getting to the middle.
In this post, we are sort of in the middle stages of the rebuild, the demolition and main carpentry are winding down, the plumber and electrician are in the house, as well as the AC guy starts in a day or so.
We filled up three of these so far, just had another empty one placed.
Got the garage slab poured as well.
My good helper!
Annnnnnnd, cuteness for the win!
We filled up three of these so far, just had another empty one placed.
Got the garage slab poured as well.
My good helper!
Annnnnnnd, cuteness for the win!
Monday, September 26, 2011
Better late than never.
Wowza, it has been far far too long since the last post.
In the meantime, we've made quite a bit of progress, and yet somehow feel so far behind.
This was our little visitor a couple days ago:
Harv has claimed his chair:
Teaser for tomorrow's post:
In the meantime, we've made quite a bit of progress, and yet somehow feel so far behind.
This was our little visitor a couple days ago:
Harv has claimed his chair:
Teaser for tomorrow's post:
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Our ~350 Sq. ft. abode
Did I tell you all how much we like living small? For real, it's not that bad, and as far as i know most people outside of America do it this way with even larger families.
This was what is to become our bedroom after cleaning out the cobwebs and cleaning the floors walls and ceiling.
This is Eric Todd, my old roomate, the guy who got me into cycling, and all-round good friend from the Army. He was kind enough to take a whole week of work for me to fly him out here to help me make a place to live.
Add a window A/C unit, some paint, tile and voila!
Gross Bathroom we ended up totally taking even the floor out of.
Really gross rat's nest of foil wrappers and turds.
After a few hours demolishing it looks like this.
The next day we have this,
and, after a little of this, (that in my hand is a takeaway cup of Black IPA from the pub down the block, and it was dee-lish)
we end up with this!
Kitchen before,
during,
and after.
This is Eric Todd, my old roomate, the guy who got me into cycling, and all-round good friend from the Army. He was kind enough to take a whole week of work for me to fly him out here to help me make a place to live.
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