Friday, February 4, 2011
Kitchen Complete!
The kitchen is complete! It actually finished up Around New Years, but our blogging slipped a bit. Here are some pictures of the remodeled kitchen. Although it took some time, about six months to finish, we love the end product and the contractor, crew, and fabricators all did great jobs.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
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Refinished floor
The scratches the floors endured plus the prolonged schedule led our contractor to repair the floors by having them sanded down and refinished for the living room. Along with that we went ahead and had three spots replaced which had
1. a poor patch and broken boards
2. a water stain from a plant or something - ziggy was exonerated. I thought it had been an overlooked pee stain left in her 'executive pisser' but the floor guy said he would have smelled it when they sanded it down.
3. some other spot
You'll also noticed that the pool table is gone. We donated it to a VFW post in south Austin, or possibly to some scam artists, depending on whether or not I receive that donation receipt. I think they're legit, and will get good use out of the table. It was funny when I heard the old vets and crew arrive. Some crunching and grinding, along with someone gunning the gas, led me to look outside where I watched an old guy try to back up the driveway. The only problem was he was about 5' off to the right and trying to go through my 65 gallon recycling bin and over my corner flower patch. A good divot was dug in the yard, and the once rectangular bin was now squished. I tried to tell him to make a big loop around the block, but he misunderstood and made a 5 point turn in the busy intersection by the house. Nothing terrible though, and luckily the recycling truck's robotic grabber arm scrunched the can back into shape.
So the floors look great, I painted the trim, but will touch up some more. The GC installed the cabinet knobs and pulls, and installed the microwave, stove and fridge. We've been eating like college days, MV food galore. And notice the Christmas tree that we cut down at the farm*.
Just a few things left, with hopes of a finished kitchen by next Friday! The main things being the granite, dishwasher and backsplash.
*this blog is somewhat boring due to lack of pictures. We'll need to address our maxed out storage space with google and load the pics of the floor, and of the tree.
1. a poor patch and broken boards
2. a water stain from a plant or something - ziggy was exonerated. I thought it had been an overlooked pee stain left in her 'executive pisser' but the floor guy said he would have smelled it when they sanded it down.
3. some other spot
You'll also noticed that the pool table is gone. We donated it to a VFW post in south Austin, or possibly to some scam artists, depending on whether or not I receive that donation receipt. I think they're legit, and will get good use out of the table. It was funny when I heard the old vets and crew arrive. Some crunching and grinding, along with someone gunning the gas, led me to look outside where I watched an old guy try to back up the driveway. The only problem was he was about 5' off to the right and trying to go through my 65 gallon recycling bin and over my corner flower patch. A good divot was dug in the yard, and the once rectangular bin was now squished. I tried to tell him to make a big loop around the block, but he misunderstood and made a 5 point turn in the busy intersection by the house. Nothing terrible though, and luckily the recycling truck's robotic grabber arm scrunched the can back into shape.
So the floors look great, I painted the trim, but will touch up some more. The GC installed the cabinet knobs and pulls, and installed the microwave, stove and fridge. We've been eating like college days, MV food galore. And notice the Christmas tree that we cut down at the farm*.
Just a few things left, with hopes of a finished kitchen by next Friday! The main things being the granite, dishwasher and backsplash.
*this blog is somewhat boring due to lack of pictures. We'll need to address our maxed out storage space with google and load the pics of the floor, and of the tree.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
PAINT!
The good news about having a painter pass out in your kitchen is you subsequently get your living room painted....for free!
We chose tame teal, I nice light blue green which I am in love with! So much so that we decided to pay the painters to also paint the ceiling and the kitchen. Feeling like the colors needed to be a little crazier, we chose a bright peach. It may seem weird but I found these great curtains....give it some time! I really love it.
Scrambletron also got some more reno in this past weekend. Bear and I attended a lovely wedding in Galveston so Ziggy went to the hotel for dogs that is my sister-in-law's house. At some point she was shut in the garage and decided the only way to make the best of it was to destroy a little of the garage drywall. For good measure she pooped on the floor. Needless to say, my sister-in-law really, really, loves having Scrambles over.
At this point I feel like I am going crazy in my own home. Expecting something to happen with the granite this week was obviously overly optimistic of me. As it turns out, the fabricator has eight jobs lined up. To make matters worse, it takes up to five days to fabricate the granite (optimistic?). That would put the fabricator eight weeks out from being at our house. I guess the bright side is that our GC is looking for another fabricator with less jobs...my question, why are so many people getting granite at this exact time? and in this economy?!
Somehow the progress seems to be regressing.
Ziggy hanging out in the car and getting ready for some demo!
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