Tuesday, December 24, 2019

By the chimney with care

The IKEA artwork is now hanging by the chimney with care.


I also got some more switches in today. Unfortunately one of the switches that Amazon sent wasn't working so I had to pull it out and need to replace it again. 

The master closet is painted, lights are in, and the outlets are in. There are only a few more things to do before it is a useful closet.

Friday, December 20, 2019

Front porch progress

As the dry weather was ending we dealt with some of the items on the front porch. There are dinner cedar beams that I was worried would need to be painted because they had weather too much. I started sanding them to paint and the wood grain still looked good. After a lot of sanding and some wood cleaner they got way too attractive to just paint over. We got some exterior wood oil and they came out really well. It will take some maintenance, but we love the exposed wood.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

A Closet

We have been way behind in posting updates on progress due to trying to race to get as much done as possible before winter came. Well, winter is here. We managed to clean up the cedar for the front porch that we thought was gone and needed to be painted. Instead it is oiled and presenting it's full beauty as wood. We managed to finish up the front porch, but the tile contractor didn't get here in time to install tile before the rains. Instead we managed to get a coat of paint of the porch that should keep it protected through the winter. We have transitioned to working inside, mainly on painting. The master closet of now painted. The lights and outlets are installed.

From the outside it doesn't look like much, but the progress is rewarding.

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Conduit and Thanksgiving

It's been a bit since we blogged.  This was thanksgiving weekend, and while we didn't host on thanksgiving day, we did host on the Saturday after, and made a great meal for family in our new kitchen.  The house is seeming to come together.  October was spent working on the front porch.  We have more curb appeal now.  It's not done, but more water proof while we coordinate with our tile guy.  And today, was conduit in the garage to let us plug in our electric car in the garage.