Before and After - Bathroom

The guest bath is now complete thanks to the hard work of my husband and Page Construction Services.

Before:


After:



The photos of the final steps:




(see below for the tear out and the beginning of the restore).

Floors Day 2

The bamboo floors are IN! Stranded bamboo. That's important. Stranded is much harder, doesn't scratch the way regular bamboo scratches.

Anyway, another 7am wake up call this lovely Monday. But, FIRST....Ryan had to put the sub floor in:


I should have been documenting this stuff all along but at the end of the day Sunday, we were short 1 piece of sub-floor. No problem! Lowes is 5 minutes away. They were out. Seriously. ONE piece. Anyway, Ryan put it in this morning while the flooring crew worked on the hallway and guest room:



And then the guest room was done:



I wasn't able to get a photo of the floor in, what I'm calling, the yoga room. But it's pretty too. Here's the master bedroom 1/2 way:



And the master bedroom finished:



Finished minus one threshold. We had some extra but had a mess up in the hallway. Cut a new piece. Perfect. Cut the first piece for the threshold to Scott's bathroom. Didn't fit. Cut it again - PERFECT. Put the nail in: it split. So, we'll need to order another piece.

The joys of remodeling.

Update on the bathrooms: Touch up grouting and caulking happened today. Touch up caulking happens tomorrow, I believe. Once that happens: hang the vanities, hang the shower door, add the shower controls, put the toilets and sinks in, hope the plumbing works. That's a joke (sort of).

Update on the kitchen: I was going to wait and post all of the kitchen photos at once but I *THINK* I'm going to be even more busy the rest of the week trying to go through our belongings and move in around the rest of the construction. So, I'll say that the counter tops are IN. The sink and dishwasher are being worked on currently. They MIGHT even work before I go to bed. The cook top is still on the agenda. Ryan says no later than Wednesday night.

The first piece of the counter top:



It was just a tad too long. The shorter piece was quite a bit too short. Awesome fabrication guy was able to take them back to the shop, fix both pieces AND bring them back in the same afternoon.

The sinks in (that's Jeff, the plumber):



To keep with today's theme: The sink had to be pulled out once we saw the hole was properly cut. A clip caught the laminate and pulled it up, causing a hairline fracture. Lots of sad faces happened. Options were considered. Heavy sighs. Long pauses. Then Jeff thought - if we move the sing down more we can cover the rip. BINGO. Happy faces. Jeff just drilled the hole to add the faucet. Now he's on to drilling the hole for the air switch for the garbage disposal. It goes on the other side of the sink.

Here's the laminate we chose:


And.....for something that is now FINISHED! The bar top is DONE (obviously the mirror won't remain there but we are storing things wherever we can these days).



Oh, & we had our first fire in the fireplace....YAY!


Long post but it might be the last you hear from me this month. Maybe.

OOOOH! One last picture...just as I was about to sign off Jeff had the faucet in place. Look at that....

Bamboo Floor Beginings

Today at 7am the floor crew arrived. By 9am 1/2 of the living room was done. Amazing.

Here's what it looked like when we bought it:


The dining room during the demo:


And, the process today:
After 2 hours:


After about 4 hours:


And at the end of the day, looking from living room into dining room:


and from dining room into living room:


That's Morning Star Stranded Bamboo. It doesn't scratch up like the softer, not stranded bamboo. It's BEAUTIFUL if I do say so my self!

Tile!

The bathrooms are finally getting some tile! Check it out:

Scott's floor:


A close up of the tile in my bathroom:


My bathtub area:


And, for a non-bathroom photo...my current favorite photo: The view in to the house via the windows we just uncovered and restored back to their original:


Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday. No pictures this weekend since we'll be out of town. However, work will be happening in the bathrooms so I'll update early next week.

Quick photos

The bathroom tile is now IN the house. Yes, it's delayed from my last post. But, now that it's inside...it's closer.



This is the flooring for the house....still in the box but not for long!


The wall of kitchen cabinets, sans handles. Maybe tomorrow the rest of the cabinets will have doors too! The lighting is done though. WooWoo!

Kitchen Floors

Since it's been pretty slow around the house I wanted to touch more on our AWESOME kitchen floors. We outfitted our kitchen and family room with marmoleum click tiles. I linked to a page that tells you all about marmoleum just in case you've not heard of it. We had not. Scott stumbled on it randomly while frantically searching for flooring options. The basics are:

Marmoleum is a natural product made from renewable resources: linseed oil, wood flour, pine rosin, natural pigments and a jute backing.

Marmoleum is naturally anti-static so it repels dust and dirt. A dry mop is best for cleaning, and spot cleaning with water as needed.

Marmoleum Click is also considered eco-friendly because it is very durable - you just won't have to replace it that often. It's considered "The 40 year floor".

Additionally, natural linoleum surfaces also feature antimicrobial properties that halt the breeding of harmful micro-organisms, including MRSA and C-difficile. Marmoleum is being used in hospitals because of this feature.

Those are just a few of the reasons why I love our kitchen floor! Ryan said he was impressed by the product as well and he installed it!

Pippet has been all over it chasing her toys with no scratch marks!

This is the color we chose:

(eternity)

This is the cork back of one of our tiles:


And the front:


And, a bit of a side note: Our fridge is in its proper kitchen location, as is our oven and microwave and it looks like a few doors are even up on the cabinets! I'm out of town for work so I can't be certain.


Rumor is the tile guy is underway in the bathrooms as well!!!

Still going....

A delay in writing due to a much needed trip away from construction. Scott and I drove East with our baby girl, Pippet, this weekend. It was her first vacation. A dog belongs on hiking trails!

While we were gone, Ryan worked on the house. He replaced the leaky garden window in the "her" bath and put our kitchen floor in (!!!!). Things will be slow moving the next few weeks as we didn't think our house would take so long and Ryan had another job scheduled. Today the dry wall guy was here sanding away, our friend has been painting the walls as we finish rooms (he'll be by tomorrow to finish up one of the bath walls) and our tile guy is aiming to hit the bathrooms by end of the week.

In the meantime, here are some new photos of the progress:

We put plastic up all through the house the morning before we left. It helped cut down on the dry wall dust in the rooms we are storing things and in the room we are living out of. This photo is the plastic we put up to keep the sun room from getting coated since we are storing several things in there:


We almost had an oven and microwave ready for use but something wasn't lining up correctly. Another trip to Ikea in our future to make it work. Here's Ryan and Mike trying with Scott looking on:


WE HAVE A FLOOOOOR!!! It looks dark gray in this photo but it's a blue/gray in real life.


Leaky garden window is gone:


New window is IN (That's Porter paints Antique Silver on the one wall in the bathroom. The wall without drywall will get tile.):

Another week down!

I can't believe I haven't updated for a week! This house is totally gutted now. We have one usable bathroom and we are on a mattress on the floor until the flooring is put in. The flooring was supposed to arrive yesterday but it wasn't correct. So, end of this week or start of next. sigh....

We are down to cabinet building (oh so fun) and our General Contractor has started doing his work. Tonight he took out the damaged sub-floor in the kitchen and replaced it with new. Pictures below. Enjoy and thanks for following along!

Dinning room before (carpeted):


And after carpet, padding, tack strips and staples removed:


Check it - some more awesome wall paper under the mirrors:


We pulled the weird TV stand out of the "closet" as well as pulled off the "speaker doors":


Just about full:


Scott begins the cabinet build:


The first one is done! He says it's the hardest one....It's the corner cabinet:


And then he was on a roll!


That's our GC, Ryan. He just finished ripping out all the water damaged flooring:


And that's our new kitchen sub-floor:


Pre-historic wasp Scott had to kill. Sucker is HUGE!


And, finally, he SOOO deserved this moment:

So far....

Not so much time to write. Here's what we've been doing:

Finding an awesome floor in the sun room, under the carpet (it's slate):


Making sure Pippet likes the place (Oh, and ripping up carpet padding and tack strips):


Scraping paint off windows:
BEFORE:


AFTER (though there's some to scrape on the outside still):


Ripping out what was left of the kitchen: