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Kitchen & Floor are done

Glenn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:06:10 +0000

We lived in a hotel for a few days while the floor was finished and dried. Man, it sure smells bad when a floor is refinished. The smell is almost all gone now and the floor looks great. I’ve moved our dinette back into our nook. We are getting a new dining room set on Wednesday so that will be cool.

Kitchen’s are just no fun to have redone. It’s great to have it finished and in time, the new room will feel like ours.

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Kitchen & Floor are done

Paint is done – floor is getting sanded

Glenn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:15:54 +0000

The Kitchen, Laundry Room, and various Hallways are all painted. I will probably have some trim touch up after the next step. The paint job actually looks pretty good. I’m not sure if I got all the drips but I cleaned up all the ones I found. The edges are crisp around trim so I think it’s as good as I can hope for. Glad I saved the money though I’m not looking forward to painting more down the road.

Right now the floor is in the first steps of getting refinished. There are large sections of existing floor getting refinished and large sections of new floor getting finished for the first time.

The first step is sanding and filler. We get to stay in our house for this step but tomorrow the finish actually goes down and we need to leave (unless we had a death wish, which we don’t). We are heading to a local hotel.

The floor is already looking better because it is starting to look uniform and clean. I can’t wait till we get back in the house (except for the smell which will probably still be there) because the floor will look great.

Paint Changes

Glenn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:17:35 +0000

I painted the kitchen walls yesterday with our choice of yellow. It’s a friendly, inviting yellow that has mustard tones in it – not Dijon and not French’s yellow though.

Once it was on the wall, Kathy began the process of changing her mind. She liked the Kitchen color but wanted to change the dining room area to the same yellow rather than the two tone Brick/Teracota colors. I put a quick coat on last night and she likes it so that is what we are going with.

There will still be delineation between the two areas. The Kitchen area has simple walls while the Dining Room area has crown molding, chair rails, and a simple detail below the chair rails. These details in the Dining Room will get a gloss white treatment.

Maybe I’ll finish the yellow today.

Time to Paint

Glenn — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:12:13 +0000

The kitchen remodel that we are doing is going well – in fact, we may be ahead of schedule by a day or so.

I’ve started to do some of the painting.

Kathy and I have taken more risk than we’ve done before with color though it’s still pretty conservative. We are going with a yellow shade in our Kitchen area which we think goes well with the cherry cabinets, the dark granite counter, and the mixed earth-tone color tile backsplash. In the dining area, which is not separated from the kitchen with a wall or other hard boundary, will get a two tone treatment. Below the chair rail, we are going with a dark brick color and above the chair rail will be a terra-cotta (much lighter in color than the red). We think it gives a richness and formality to the space.

In addition, I’m painting the laundry room, 3 hallways, and a bathroom though these are all going a shade of white.

I’ve painted the ceiling in the kitchen (it needed it since a bunch of it is new drywall), the laundry room, 1 hallway, and I’ve started on the other 2. I’m hoping this week to finish the other 2 hallways and start the kitchen and maybe dining room too.

I’m hoping to slow down a bit because I’ve got �painters elbow� and other aches that definitely came from painting (the ceiling is the most likely culprit).

Remodel Anxiety

Glenn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:19:01 +0000

Ok, when you go into a remodel of your house, your home, you are hopeful that the choices you make are the right ones. You are hopeful, that the design fits your personal style. You are hopeful, that the functionality is maximized. Ultimately, you are hopeful that the results will be everything that you want and everything that you need.

The contractor though, is about other things. The contractor is about the profit. The contractor is about doing a good job (hopefully). The contractor is about a satisfied customer (who will recommend the contractor to others for more business). The contractor is about minimizing costs, time.

Of course, the contractor works Monday through Friday while you live 7 days a week.

This leaves the weekends to fret and be anxious and be upset about trivial things and with any luck be excited about other things.

In other words, weekends are full of anxiety.

Remodel Info

Glenn — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:42:19 +0000

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this at all or very often in this blog but Kathy and I are doing a large remodel of our kitchen, dining room, and laundry/mud room.

So far, I must say that the company we hired to do this job has some really hard working folks. I think they have really made some progress given their schedule.

If you’d like to see progress check out our Photo Gallery with remodel pictures. There are before and ongoing pictures.

Power Outage

Glenn — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:21:11 +0000

The power just went off probably because the wind, which has just started to blow a bit, knocked something down and into a power line.

I just finished doing some sanding on my Blanket Chest so after the power comes back up, I’ll work to put a picture or two up.

UPS’s are great except for all the beeping they do. I’m not sure why the beeping has to happen since it’s pretty darn obvious the power went out and any operating system worth it’s salt will put a message in your face. I’ve got UPS’s on my internet and phone components and Kathy’s and my computers so we can get news and stuff if they last very long. I expect this will be a short outage.