The retaining wall project has been moving along quite fast! Mark has been spending lots of weekday time working on the walls and Ryan helped on Sunday as well. The wall looks so great- I love the pattern! I think we’ve decided to wait on the door install till spring so we can order the …
As I mentioned before Mark has been working on some outside projects around here while his tractor is here. The lake front looks amazing with all the clearing he did! As you walk up the side of the house you can see the huge pile of dirt we have going… And the excavation by the …
Some great progress on the house this weekend. Ryan has been working on the built-ins in my office/sewing room (I’m so excited!). The base cabinet pieces are now done. Note the wires – we had to move the outlet that would have been down below/behind the cabinet. Luckily the wires are long enough that they …
A little more progress this past weekend. Ryan picked up the doors we had ordered from home depot (finally they are in). This includes the basement and bathroom doors as well as slab doors for the washer/dryer closet and pantry closet (Ryan will build the door jambs for those double door closets). I emptied out …
It’s been a few months since I really updated (partly because it’s been that long since we did much house work other than slowly chipping away on trim). This weekend Ryan got a bunch of the doors and arches trimmed out (he had been working on them slowly but got a bunch done this weekend) …
First off Ryan got a lot more trim done in the ‘playroom’ – all except the crown molding is done – but we immediately filled the playroom with everything from the ‘office’ which is twice the size of it so I never got a picture and now you can’t see the wainscoting at all. I’ll …
I haven’t posted house progress in quite a while. Things have been slow but thanks to paternity leave Ryan has some more time and he’s started with finishing up trim in the playroom and the kitchen windows to start. This progress was just the last 2 days, prior to that was just recovery time from …
After a much deserved (and needed) break from house work we made a little progress this weekend (and by we I mean 95% ryan). I came home on Sunday to most of the upper cabinets back off the wall! He had been wanting to shift the stove vent over about 1/8 to give it space …
It took 2 months which actually is quite good considering how large this kitchen is AND considering Ryan was in horrible back pain a lot of that – but the kitchen is back to useable shape. Not ‘done’ but done enough we could enjoy it for the holidays!!! The counters came a week before xmas …
2 weekends ago we focused on getting the double ovens installed and the hood and upper cabinets. The first project was cutting the oven cabinet opening to the right size. Then installing the brackets and wiring the ovens to the wall box. The ovens didn’t get lifted in and set until Sunday when we had …