I think a lot actually happened this week – which is a nice change of pace. Or maybe it didn’t and I’m just lying to myself. Honestly, both could be true. We still have not started landscaping yet but I’m incredibly eager for that day. I can’t wait to just stand there and watch the…
I’ve learned a few things over the course of this project but here are my two most recent learnings: (1) I have nice taste. My nice taste consistently costs $600 more than the lower option. (2) If I like something, it will be backordered just when we really need it. The latest thing to be…
Update: I still hate plumbing fixtures. To this point, we’ve done made a lot of decisions but really just for the showers and bathtub situations and that leaves all the sinks faucets. I’m a little unclear why I can never find exactly what I want especially given the plethora of options out there generally. Kitchen…
It was a real light week at the house. To the point where I almost thought about skipping this post and merging it with next week – but that would feel like cheating… and we’ve come so far. The biggest thing that happened this week was nearly finishing the first floor floors. I’m honestly not…
I’ve been pretty busy with house renovations so I just haven’t been doing any writing here – but that will change. We are on week 33 of renovations… and that has to end at some point right? I hope so. The upside and downside has been that I haven’t been able to over obsess about my…
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…
