Came home last night to see the new kitchen cabinets partially installed. The rest happens today and then I think the floorings guys are back tomorrow. I think our new farm sink will be in today but not actually installed until next week (Wednesday is what I heard ( Read more... )

Awww...the pitter patter of framers showing up for work..... They sound like a herd of cats.
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Woke up this morning about 6:45 am (which is about 45 min earlier than usual for me) and for a good minute or two didn't know what day it was. By the time I figured it out, I was wide awake so I went ahead and got up. Normally sunrise would have happened by now because in years past the time change was the Sat/Sun before Halloween. Since that's ( Read more... )

Woke up this a.m. to the lovely news that our home remodel got accepted in the 2009 Tour of Remodeled Homes. Very excited although, truth be known, we were half way expecting it. It just seemed like we had an interesting and significant remodel/addition going on that would be a shoo in. But one never knows and there was some worry that we weren't ( Read more... )

Heard this song first on this season's "So You Think You Can Dance". Loved the dance and the song. If you click on "full lyrics" you can listen to the song.


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Came home from work last night to find all the new plumbing supply lines are in and I guess the city inspector approved the work. Fast work. So far the new supply lines are connected up to right about where our water heater connects. Obviously our kitchen will have all new plumbing and the addition will be all new, too. We're going to have new ( Read more... )

This has been a good week for me ( Read more... )

What a whirlwind the past couple weeks have been! Work has been amazingly busy and the construction has started. We had so much happen the first week - porch demo one day, trees down and stumps ground the next day, cement broken up the next day, excavation started and old cess pool dug up the next, and then excavation finished and the cess pool ( Read more... )

Our general contractor got permits and is coming to the house today with the excavator. Hopefully we'll get at least a starting schedule. Kathy has done an amazing job digging up most of our plants. I promised to do the roses which I will do this Sunday while Comcast is moving our service line away from the construction point. I also have to do ( Read more... )

Looks like the remodel is underway. So far as I know, the final permits to start work haven't been approved/issued but most of them are. I can go to the Portland Maps website (www.portlandmaps.com) and see the process. It's kind of fun. I use this site a lot to look up our rental properties at work. You can get all sorts of information about a ( Read more... )