House Projects

[carltalon]

Finished up tonight. Grouting the border was alot harder then doing floors. but I think it turned out pretty good. Im not shure about the white outlet covers we'll have to see what Michelle (my wife) says about them.

[Halon]

Kitchen looks real nice! Also had a chance to peak at some of the work Jet has been doing, and also looks great!

I just got done mortaring down 8 more tiles. All I have left now is a few in the closet to mortar down which I can hopefully do tomorrow, then start painting!

[Halon]

Haven't gotten anything else done in the entry way, but in parallel of the entry way work, I'm slowly getting new appliances. My dad is completely redoing their kitchen, so I'm scoring all of his old appliances, all of which are nicer then my current ones. Just put the new dishwasher in today. The new microwave is sitting in the garage waiting to be put in. The new fridge and range should be about a month away.

[carltalon]

We built a deck over the last few weekends.

[Halon]

Awesome!!

[scheides]

Nice work Carl, looks good man!

[turbotalon1g]

That looks great, i know who to call when i need one.

We started painting finally. its nice to not have white walls everywhere.

[Halon]

Completely finished painting my entry way today, all the way up the stairs to the edge of the family room. I also replaced all the light switches and outlets and covers from white to Ivory. The white ones were dirty and gross, and the Ivory goes a lot better with the paint color. Benjamin Moore 1039 Stone House.

Also for anyone else interested, Menards is selling light fixtures for dirt cheap. I got the 13" ones. A 2-pack costs $12, so I bought two of the 2-packs. Replaced the two kitchen ones, and have yet to install the other 2 which will go in the stairway and the other one upstairs. Here's a pick of the ones in the kitchen.

13" brushed nickel, holds 2 60W bulbs.

[turbotalon1g]

Looks good man, those light fixtures look nice too.

[Halon]

Well now that I'm home to do some more work, Derek and I have been making some progress on the entry way.

We had to remove and relay 1 tile because it wasn't seated very nicely. That was actually a bit of work.
We got all the closet tiles mortared in except for 2 tiny pieces that I still need to cut.
We completed all the grouting, except for the little bit that will need to be done in the closet.
Installed all new hardware for the handrails going up the stairs because the old ones looked pretty crummy.

Thursday we will seal the grout, and begin cleaning and reinstalling all the wood trim. It may take a week or so until we finish that though.

Then the final thing we will have to do is go patch up any dings we've made in the walls, and paint those little repairs, then the entry way is COMPLETE!