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Archive for November, 2007
So close we can almost taste it…
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | 2 Comments »
At this stage of the game, I could use a reminder of what we were up against two short months ago. The no-ceiling, pegboard crap kitchen of doom. The microwave ... Read more..[undignified cackle] Appliances!!
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | No Comments »
Ah! Oh! A kitchen! With stuff in it! Stuff that you plug into the walls and into various pipes that emit liquid and gaseous substances that aid with the heating ... Read more..Flooring fantasies do come true
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | 1 Comment »
The floor is in, and the cement or whatever seems to have cured because we have dispensation to walk on it, though I'm still taking it somewhat gingerly, mostly wearing ... Read more..Everybody must get stone
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | No Comments »
Damn, that's pretty. Now this. This is a beautiful floor. Or it's going to be. You're going to have to trust me when I say that it looks way better than ... Read more..Floors and fire
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | No Comments »
I'm not entirely sure what this orange floor coating is all about, but apparently it is both very important and very expensive. Saint Steven said something about how it will ... Read more..Truly, we are the toast of Bethesda
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | 1 Comment »
On the plus side, the pile of old kitchen that was out back is now gone. In the minus column, we find the huge red dumpster that is currently squatting ... Read more..Not yet a kitchen, but no longer a hole in the house.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | 1 Comment »
Now this is starting to look like something. The cabinets are taking shape, the electrical outlets look about ready to deliver, the lights are on for the first time in ... Read more..Let the installation begin!
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | 1 Comment »
It is a gala day in this godforsaken house. The cabinets are going in, which means that soon the floor will be done, and while it's drying/setting/stabilizing/whatever, the pile out ... Read more..One of these things is not like the other one.
Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | No Comments »
So it looks like I'll be spending my Saturday carefully explaining to the douchebags at Reico that this is not "close enough." They tacked more materials on the cabinet list ... Read more..“I do hate to paint.”
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in The Big House | No Comments »
That's what the benevolent and kind Steven said to us when he remodeled the bathroom. He said he'd deliver it in a "paint-ready" state, and I asked what it ... Read more..