We closed on our house in August of 2006, a month before our first year wedding anniversary. Fortunately, we had about four weeks of overlap between getting the keys and the end of our lease on our rental house. During that time, we spent almost every night and weekend at our new home, furiously cleaning, […]
Over 6 months ago, we posted our big plans for 2011 which included a large backyard deck. Since the original SketchUp renderings, we decided to make it a bit wider and showed you our progress in a series of posts (found here). Construction was more or less done by early August, but the last thing on our to-do list […]
Work weekend #4 began Friday afternoon when Kyle came home early to get a jumpstart on the waterproofing. Normal people go to Happy Hour on Friday afternoon, crazed homeowners apply waterproofing. First he applied a thin coat to the cold joint between the existing foundation wall and new concrete footing “enhancement” that we poured last […]
Aww, Labor Day weekend. Three days of camping in the San Juan islands, cooking over an open fire, playing fetch with your favorite golden retriever on the beach… Well, It would have been great. Early last week we decided to cancel our weekend travel plans and instead power through on the foundation work. In other […]
Even though the sliding barn doors were installed several months ago, we still had a few tasks to complete. First, door stops. A day or two before our big party we installed a stop inside the track above the bathroom door. This prevents the door from sliding too far in one direction, blocking access to the handle from […]