The remodeling work on our house (the interior at least) is almost complete! Just a bit more work on one of the bathrooms, one of the guest rooms and some random things....which will probably take a few more months knowing how slow we and the contractors work around here. But here are some pictures of the new kitchen: Kitchen1, Kitchen 2. We love the new kitchen except for the window which will be fixed tomorrow. The countertop is granite tile (in absolute black) and the floors are procelain tile that looks like stone. Charlie wants to point out that he picked out the beautiful sink and faucet and put up the track lighting :) We tore down a wall where the 'penninsula' is right now. You can see a right above on the ceiling. We added that to tie in the 2 ceilings because the dining room and kitchen ceiling height were slightly different. It's much nicer and more open now! Just so you could REALLY appreciate the work we did to the place, here are some before pcitures! Before: Kitchen 1, Before: Kitchen 2.
Here are a few of our living room: This is the archway between the dining and living room, and Before. Here are a couple of the living room: Living Room 1, Living Room 2 ...Before - ah! green paint!
And here is one of the downstairs/guest bathroom which we are using as our bathroom for now untill the upstairs one is completed. We only did a partial remodel for this bathroom. It has new floor tiles, we replaced the vanity with a pedestal sink, new toilet and a mirror instead of the old ulgy medicine cabinet. Some before pictures: before 1, and before 2.
Much thanks to Charlie's dad, Peter for helping us with a lot of the seemingly small things which really were big things!! And tools we borrowed from our friend Justin of course! More pictures to come when we clean up some and when we finish the upstairs bathroom and move out of the guest room!
Well, I thought I would do a posting with a picture of our living room, which is an oasis of semi completeness in the construction zone we call our house. So on a lazy Sunday, I kicked back on our Reno-mushroom couch, punctuated by some paper work, watering duties, programming Perl, lunch with Karen and a Home depot run before I saw her off - i80 west to San Fran. I managed to strike out for a walk to Albertson's as well, and did a posting on Nick's excellent new website. Although I defaced the posting with an explicit title - so if you want to see it you better get over there before it gets edited.
Warning: Some of these links have large pictures, over 500k. Some have small ones. Good luck.
Well, unfortunately we haven't been keeping up with the web log. Not much going on here... except we got engaged, moved to Reno, bought a car ('cept now it's more getto faboulous with all black tinted windows) , working full time and just hired my first employee, bought a house, went to Santa Fe, NM and Vancouver.
As for the house, we had some outstanding success painting it today - here are some pic's: Notice the ugly green paint if you can Karen painting
Here is a shot of the wall with the new trim and paint.
Prospective couch from macy's...
