Monthly Archives: September 2008

22 Sep

Stucco is finished, and light fixtures go in…

Over Friday and Saturday we started to see our light fixtures show up. The cans and smoke detectors are all in and switches and plates are being installed. The flooring is all in and the bathroom is well underway. It appears that the brown coat has been applied to the interior plaster walls, once that [...]
19 Sep

Getting close, but no cigar

Progress on the house continues, Jenn and I visited every day this week. Check out the pictures below. On a more personal note, this has been a hard week. I received news about an old and dear friend, Winston Churchill. He has been missing for over three weeks now in the mountains around Lake City [...]
16 Sep

The house gets some color

Jenn and I where lucky to get to the house as Sean’s guys started the exterior stucco on Saturday. The interior flooring is coming along nicely and the cabinets are basically in. We still need counter-tops, railings, and a bunch of other finish work, however, we are making decent progress. At this point, though, I [...]
12 Sep

Site Visit

We had another site visit today with Sean and Nathan. We spent a bunch of time looking at the kitchen and figuring out what to do with the cabinetry and our small island. We decided to move the cabinets back flush against the wall giving us a few more inches on the cabinet and requiring [...]
11 Sep

We have the keys to the house :-)

Jenn and I went up to the house yesterday to grab the keys! So now we are more official. Also, Sean started to lay down floors and hanging the cabinets. When we did the layout for the kitchen the elevations we used where off by about a foot so we have some figuring out to [...]