I am thankful that I haven’t really thought about lighting until this point. The amazing and terrible thing about lighting is that there are SO MANY options. And even beyond that, there are a plethora of legitimate websites that sell lighting – unlike the bathtub research. When I approached the lighting list, the first thing…
And welcome to the week where I actually crossed items off my list. I literally went to 9 stores today of which 2 were for food and 5 were for the house. There is a day in the not so distant future when I’ll spend my weekends going to yoga and not harassing lighting store…
At this point each week is more about a burst of progress in one area. The house is so far along that it’s kind of hard for multiple people to be doing their work all at once. Like the tile guy can’t really do his tile stuff because the wood floor guy is doing his…
Oh the kitchen. I had no idea that this was the most expensive room in the whole house. Thankfully I enjoy cooking because man alive, this would be painful if you don’t. The interesting thing about this whole process to me is that I don’t 100% know where everything is going or how it will…
Lots happening this week. Every day we are getting a bit closer to the end of the construction phase… and closer to the actual “live in house” phase. Lofty goal right? There was a whole lot of action in a bunch of areas. Like I finally bought the vanities and I finally bought the kitchen…
We are getting closer and closer to putting down some roots at this house. Landscaping roots that is. I have a love hate relationship with landscaping. One of the reason’s I moved from the city was to garden and more easily get my hands covered in dirt. That being said, I don’t like things that…
I made a list yesterday of all the lighting fixtures / options that I need to pick out and buy. How it is possible that there are still so many things to select? Yes, I get it. We took absolutely everything out of this house except the stairs… so of course I have to pick…
I realized this week that thinking about tile work very legitimately raises my heart rate. I was at the dentist last week and the hygienist was like “hi yeah, you need to get this under control. you are 34. did you eat Chinese food last night? or are you under a lot of stress?”. The…
I’ve been to the tile store I think like 5 times now. I have rather legitimately changed my mind each time I went to the store. Fundamentally, the design is the “same” but I always come away with something slightly different. I’m an iterative person so this isn’t super surprising to me but I really…
Let’s do some quick math. 28 divided by 4 is 7. So we are 7 months into this project as of now. A whole lot of that time has been spent on rebuilding this house from it’s slightly dilapidated state…. and now it looks brand new. At this point, it feels like there is both…
