Deconstruction

Here is another photo glut to start your new year off right.
Last week all the tile and grouting was done after the drywall was finished. First the floor tile went in, it is very rough and just what we were hoping for.

Next Justin and Cameron put in the vanity, which looks […]

David and company are coming over Monday morning to put in the remaining cabinet (to the right of the kitchen sink) and install the dishwasher before the countertops are delivered on Monday afternoon. The dishwasher made it just under the wire, as the first load that GMA brought out was sans dishwasher. We […]

As you can see, despite frequent cleaning and various attempts at putting up barriers to the dust, it is omnipresent in our house. Right now there are only cursory attempts by us to keep it under control, but soon enough there will be a day of reckoning when justice will be meted out […]

Here are a few photos taken before the project started. All we had done to this point is paint the kitchen walls that shade of green (that is likely to return in some capacity). These photos were taken a few months before the kitchen started to self-destruct. A few days after […]

Not a whole lot transpired on Monday, but a few more pictures to look at. They were a’ muddin’ and a’ tapin’, and cutting out some of the holes for fixtures in the wallboard.

Shower / sink with seams covered. The shower material is supposed to arrive this morning, although it hasn’t been spotted […]

We spent a week in Denver going to a wedding, among other things, and it was very nice in two different aspects. For one, we were in air-conditioned comfort with a minimal level of dust and noise. Secondly, we knew that we would come home to some significant progress after the crew had […]

By now most of the wiring has been completed, and the lighting fixtures and outlet boxes have been roughed in. In addition, the plumber put in the lines for the washer and dryer, and ran a new cold water copper line to the fridge to power our icemaker (I hope it still works…).
We’re still […]

Here is the image that got the ball rolling, this is scanned in from the cover of the April version of House Beautiful. This design made the cut, beating out the other 7,321 home remodeling magazines we bought or pilfered over the prior 18 months.

Happy Birthday Liam!

The concrete floor was a welcome addition.

Another view…

Toilet hook up.

And then there were walls…the day after the concrete was poured the walls went up. This happened on 9/8. This is the view from the garden room in through the laundry room area.

Shower stall on the left, vanity on the right (use your imagination).

The […]

Day two was probably the loudest to date, with the introduction of the jackhammer. This was also the day that it began to sink in just how inconvenient things would be for the next few weeks. Picture this…
There is no hot water, so in order to take a shower you must pack a […]