Finally—TWO aspects of the kitchen remodel are done.

The lights. The floor. We finished Friday. The baseboards are yet to come, but we don’t count those: that’s wall, and Scott will do the baseboards. We now have a complete floor. Yay us. Ceiling painting, dining area painting, almost done, pantry interiors,...

The remodel

This is after pulling the cabinets and deciding to put an equipment closet midway to section off the dining area. The walls are now coral in the direction of view, white trim, and will have a grey slate flooring. Cabinets are quiet brown, fittings are ruddy copper,...

Preparing the pond to survive…

A little warier than last year. I am doing 3 things, first of all having a pond ‘turnover’ device, a little heated pump that will keep circulating a stream of water up to outgas CO2 buildup and then to return to the depths…and a regulation...

We have functioning lights, and the new faucet came.

It’s a thing of steam-punked beauty. Coppery. We’re not installing it yet. I can get by with what I have. The ceiling with the lights is nearly finished, and we’ve found a way to move some wiring onto other breakers so that I won’t have the...

Repair stopped—for the day—

We have spent 3 days fixing a wiring problem in our attic, which is one of those low-profile roofs, requiring a body to be jockey-sized. Or smaller. Today—noonish—we got the sucker. When wiring has to connect across an old ‘addition’ boundary,...

So I start the day on a mission…

Get another can of salmon paint from Benjamin Moore, a can of Vintage Apricot from Ace, get mouse eliminator for the garage (they’re back!) and food for stirfry, plus pick up the T-molding for the thresholds from United Flooring. I head for the grocery, and am...

Adventures in paint…

As in—shades of adobe. Which (a light version) is what the kitchen is. After looking through every paint chip in Spokane, we settled on a color from Benjamin Moore, which went perfectly with the cabinets we are not now getting. By sheer luck and the fact we had...