Short Weekend

We spent Saturday up in Santa Rosa doing a fundraiser bike ride for our church to support raising funds to get more nutritious food into local food pantries. However, we still managed to make some great progress.

Today we got some more storage shelves setup in the garage and also setup the second queen mattress that has been in storage. With the shelves we were able to organize a lot of stuff we had stored, but could not access. Now we can get to all the shelves and boxes are better organized. The queen mattress is setup so guests will be more comfortable. I also got up on the roof and cleaned out the rain gutters for the rain that will be coming this week.

Even though these are relatively little steps it feels really good and greatly improves our functionality of the house.

Our local pizzeria will hate this.

During our remodel we needed to use a laundrymat.  Our Friday routine involved getting the laundy started, going over to the pizza place in the same strip mall. Eating our first piece of pizza, then one if us would go back to the laundymat and move the clothes to the drier.  At first I thought we were creative, but eventually I realized there were a group of us going this every week. At first, it was a really lonely, funky pizza place.  But then Franky bought it and turned it around. He turned the pizza place into a nice local hangout. We've developed a friendship with him and seeing him was a bright spot in our week.

Sorry Franky, we don't have to come every week now.  Our washer and dryer are up and running!  Now we'll come see you for the amazing buffalo chicken pizza, without a mundane excuse.

Long Day

Today was a long day, but we got a lot of the container unloaded. At this point we can get to everything that is left. We can figure out what it is and where it belongs. We got our washer and dryer unloaded. We got the plug for the dryer setup. It was a long and productive day. We are super excited that we no longer need to covet quarters.

The Dryer Circuit in the Panel

A Laundry Room Ready for a Washer and Dryer

The little things

Weeknight progress

The vent fans for the laundry and one of the bathrooms are cleaned and installed. As a tip, never have a vent fan wired while a sheetrock worker is working. The fan in the laundry was filthy. The outlets and some of the lights are installed in the bathroom and laumdry. It is really nice to just be able to take a switch and have light. The next steps are to install the toilet and the shower hardware. One bite at a time.

Bathroom paint!

We got a finish coat of paint on one of the tiles bathrooms and made good progress on other rooms.  We had the surprise that our wall color, "silver drop," looks surprisingly close to our Kohler White tile.  The tile looked shockingly white next to the primer.  Now it looks creamy.

Laundry Room

Oh my, it's been a month since we blogged.  The progress has seemed slow week to week, but dramatic since our last post.  The downstairs tile is done, and we're working on painting the rooms that have tile.  The laundry room got it's final coat of finish color today.  We've also got the second coat of primer in a few rooms and a coat of the finish color on the ceiling in the hallway, storage room, and apartment bathroom.  I'm really happy with how the tile has worked out. 

I'd been thinking of the laundry room as the Brazil room (a reference to the movie, not the country) because of the duct that takes up most of one wall.  With the tile and finished paint it makes the room feel like a real room, and not just a weird area for ducts.