More of the same from day 1, plus a couple scheduling surprises. All the doors are hung now, and the baseboard is in place almost everywhere. Work got started on trimming the windows, but only a couple are done, which is good, because they’re not doing exactly what I wanted with the trim.
The surprise […]
Schedule change: the trim carpenters are here, and no sign of the hardwood floor guy. So the next 4 days or so will be trim carpentry, and the floor guy is pushed back to about next Tuesday so he won’t be in the way. Cabinets will get delivered and installed right after that.
So there’s four […]
Today’s big event is that the material for interior trim carpentry got delivered. This is all the millwork: baseboards, door and window casing, interior doors, cove molding, railings, and stock to make shelves in the closets. Lots of wood stacked neatly in the garage on a rack. We decded to use paint-grade moldings, so these […]
Also on Monday, the roofers installed the shingles on the back porch roof. It’s not a huge step forward, but it had been delayed for quite a while.
That golden hue is a result of pics taken at sunset.
I like the way the porch breaks up the back wall. The stacked plywood you see in the […]
We picked out some beautiful flooring–white oak in alternating 3-inch and 5-inch widths. This will be installed in the kitchen, dining room, “music room” and entry foyer. We selected a dark walnut stain which looked really great in the showroom. But Monday the material was delivered and we got our first real look at the […]
We spent a good chunk of Sunday with a wheelbarrow collecting trash and putting it into our burn pit. We worked about three hours and got the site pretty well policed–only about another hour’s worth of cleanup work remains to do before we can say the site is free of debris and ready for final […]
The main thing that got done was that the drywall crew sprayed a texture onto my ceilings, my garage walls, and inside my closets. this is a “knockdown” ceiling texture, so the height of it is very shallow, maybe 1/16 inch or so. It’s a bit larger and more random of a pattern than I’ve […]