Not quite unpacked, but Patrick has cooked up some quiche...
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Tub gets Reglazed
Instead of turfing out our cast-iron bathtub, we opted to revive it by reglazing it. You can't really see the places where the finish was peeling off in the first photo, but the second and third photos show the tub in the process of being scraped and reglazed. And, of course a post move-in photo of the kidlets in the new tub!
Monday, August 17, 2009
The Painting Continues (We Never Want to see Hunter Green ever, ever again)
The priming has begun! The hunter green is slowly being brushed away. Even the primer looks great - having the green gone really lets us see how the trim will looked painted out white.
Even the doors and closets are getting a lick of paint, too!
The Upstairs Bathroom - toilet AND sink!
The upstairs sink makes its way from the boys' room into the bathroom...
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Finnian Explores the New House
As good as gold, Finnian does some summer reading while mom washes the upstairs trim, to prepare it for painting.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Granda's Little Helper
Finnian dropped by on the way home from daycare to check out the renovations.
Granda took on the most evil ceiling on the planet in the office. It's difficult to see them in the bottom photo, but there were big hunks of white something-or-other on the ceiling of the office. It looked like someone threw chunks of stuff up onto the ceiling and it just stayed there.
In the end, after much, much sanding by hand with 40-grit sandpaper, Patrick and Granda unearthed... nothing. The ceiling was more or less smooth when they finished, then Granda proceeded to give it a fresh coat of paint. In the end, we suspect that it was hunks of exterior stucco that is meant to weather the elements, but apparently the 40-grit sandpaper and lots of elbow grease did the trick. Looks great!
We Officially Have Indoor Plumbing!
Toilet, meet powder room!
This means no more darting across the driveway to ask Hilda if we can use her bathroom.
The Master Bedroom - Painted!
We are making real progress with the upstairs - the master bedroom is now a pale blue, instead of dark red. Dad was a star - he tackled some humps and bumps on the surface of the wall, smoothing it all out for us.
Kitchen Update
After much work by our fine kitchen installer, Shawn, we have an enormous block of butcher block! The original kitchen plan we worked out only had butcher block in the corner, to the left of the cooktop. After the kitchen was more or less installed, we opted to change it! We got the kitchen company to order us up a much larger surface of butcher block, and now Patrick has a much larger workspace than if it was nearly all laminate. And, today the kitchen sink made its way in!!!
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