Posted in Kitchen, Pictures on Jul 5th, 2009 2 Comments »
My goal for the 4th of July weekend was to get a working kitchen in the house. I started on Friday morning with backsplash material partly cut, counters still in full-size boards, range and dishwasher just occupying space (but out of boxes) and sink, faucet, garbage disposal and range hood still in boxes.
I’m happy to […]
Posted in Pictures on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »
First off, the railing. It isn’t quite finished, but we can at least let the kids upstairs without worrying so much!
Here’s our kitchen countertops
A shot of the end grain - they are finger jointed butcher block countertops, made by Perfect Plank in Chico, CA.
Here’s the mudroom and utility room with their new flooring
And the kids’ […]
Posted in Pictures on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Kids’ Bath
Master Bath
Downstairs Bath
Doesn’t the floor in there look nice too? And yes, we’re going to replace the white caulk with something that blends a little better!
And look, I do work on the house too!
(I never thought I would use pnuematic and power tools as easily as I do now…)
Posted in General, Pictures on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
The drywall, taping and mudding, and texturing are now complete! The house looks great - so much brighter and more like a home than a construction site.
We’ve started painting the ceilings and some of the rooms, and today Matt installed our first light fixture. It seems like such a little thing, but when I […]
Posted in Pictures, Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Last year our well went un-insulated all winter and during a particularly cold stretch we had a pipe break. Fortunately I noticed it within about 12 hours because I saw that the electrical meter was spinning at a crazy rate. For the last 10 or 11 months I’ve meant to do something to prevent it […]
Posted in Pictures on Sep 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
The wall behind the woodstove. Drywalled.
The raised squares on the wall are spacers created from 2" square pieces of backerboard. They give us the air gap needed to decrease the distance that the stove must be from the wall by approximately 60%. I cut them with the diamond blade and used regular woodworking glue to […]
Posted in Construction, Electrical, Pictures, Plumbing on May 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
We took the opportunity of the long weekend and my Dad being in town to try to focus on the house. I got back into rough carpentry mode for a bit before putting my electrician and plumbing hats back on. I also got to try on a circus high wire hat - that’s one I […]
Posted in Pictures, Plumbing, Tools on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
While working on the DWV plumbing, I’ve found some tools to be extremely useful to have around. Most I expected but some were a surprise.
A selection of hand tools. I used the awl on my pocket knife (far left) to help get the disks out of the hole saw. The chisels were what I was […]
Posted in Construction, Pictures on Feb 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
Since our house is a SIP house, it’s some extra work to put plugs and switches in the exterior walls. There will be times when it’s unavoidable, but we’re trying to minimize the situation both because it will be easier and we don’t want to pierce the envelop of the walls if we can avoid […]
Posted in Pictures, Plumbing on Feb 25th, 2008 7 Comments »
We’re well on our way on the next phase of house building - Drain, Waste, Vent plumbing. The last month or so, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning and the last couple of weeks have been busy executing, modifying and adapting the plan.I’m happy to say that I’ve now finished all 3″ […]