The countertop for our master bathroom is actually fabricated from a slab of bamboo that we bought from Indigo, a green home supply store in Gainesville.
I promise to have an updated picture of the whole arrangement soon.
It came unfinished so I brushed on two coats of Waterlox Marine Finish. I expect it to be relatively [...]
After weeks of saying “I’ll install the cabinets in the master bathroom tomorrow” I finally hunkered down last Saturday and did it. The reason it took so long was because we had a bit of a technical challenge: the IKEA legs were too tall and the cabinets couldn’t rest on the floor because they would [...]
So it had started very badly:
Our floors were the wrong color, our baseboards were trashed, and the same crew that did the bang-up job was back again to fix their mistakes. That foul-up meant our kitchen was still incomplete, further delaying our final electrical stuff and countertop installation.
Then our countertop and appliance supplier [...]
Our floor contractor wouldn’t start until we had the A/C systems running for two weeks so that the moisture would work its way out of the pine floors. So after we waited for JEA to finally hook up our power and the A/C company to finish their third attempt at installing our two Trane units, [...]
We had to really encourage the floor company to meet their promised completion date of tomorrow (Friday) — and even now it’s still not guaranteed that both polyurethane coats will be done on time. Of course the last thing we want is a rushed job, but with that being said the Baby Shower for Agnes’ [...]
The weekend at the house was a qualified success. Thanks to the help of friends and family: Jonathan, Ed, Chris, and Sam, we were able to get the cork floor down in the kitchen, two layers of polyurethane on the cork, the in-wall speakers installed in the studio/presentation room, and all of the base kitchen [...]
Yeah, I’ve been bad at posting updates. I’m sorry. I promise to try to do better next time (emphasis on try).
The good news is that we’ve made incredible progress with the house. We’re not living in it yet but we’ve got most of the items necessary for living installed or scheduled to be installed this [...]
Despite the lack of updates we’ve had amazing progress lately. The drywall is in, mudded, taped, sanded, and ready for paint.
The tile for the guest bathroom and laundry room is in and looking good.
Here’s a before and after look at the guest bathroom:
And the laundry room
The drywall finishers left a nice little note on [...]
To return the American Standard toilets we purchased and get the dual-flush TOTO ones.
I’ll have to see about getting a better price than $400.
I love stories like the one below because they inspire me to be more thoughtful about the building process. A lot of the things we’ve done to this point with the Dellwood house have been in the spirit of green-ness, but I won’t lie and say that some of those decisions to reuse old portions [...]
Sometimes reusing what you’ve got is more trouble and more expensive than going new. That stinks.
So even though we have a stack of the original wood doors we’re going to put new interior doors in the house. The time and cost of stripping, sanding, repainting, and rehanging the doors we have is prohibitive. We may [...]
I apologize for the lack of updates, but it’s been a busy couple of months. Between Agnes re-launching her photography business’ “brand” and website over Labor Day weekend, a trip up to Columbus to visit my mom, and a bunch of work at the house, I’ve been slacking badly on the blog updates.
So here’s the [...]
I was writing a quick email to a good friend about the status of the house and realized a couple of things:
We’ve been kind of stuck for the last few weeks because we needed the electrician to do a few more things and he was waiting on us for stuff like bathroom fans and speaker [...]
I may not have to build bookshelves after all…
Bibliochaise by .nobody & co. (Italy)
Update: I just ordered our cork floors. They should be on their way in a week or two!
Here’s the latest slideshow from the Dellwood House (Click on the picture).
Here’s where we are:
Lead boots have been attached to the roof over the new plumbing vents.
The gas line has been installed with a tap for an [...]
Updated with the link to the Laurey PerfectMount guide.
In a previous post I mentioned that I like to read other home-improvement blogs. To be totally honest I have to admit that it’s about all that I read at this point (except for some photography blogs).
There are just too many good ideas out there. When [...]
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