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A Renovating Christmas
Dec. 26th, 2010 05:03 pmOver the next few days I'll catch up all the earlier posts from the months leading up to now, but today I thought I'd give you a little 'A Christmas Under Renovation'
It isn't so bad... no missing walls or missing windows. Mostly it's just tricky working around all these piles of building materials.
We built a paint booth in the basement to try and get the trims finished before the holidays. We got em done, but we didn't get em installed
I did get the blackboard for the kitchen painted and mounted in time to leave the familia many notes about cleaning and decorating while I disappeared for a week to Toronto.
Yeah, piles of gear to finish the electrical. The real pain of electrical retrofits isn't the adding an outlet, or installing the new light fitting, it's the obligation to fix all the mistakes made before you got there. Once you open that can of worms you have to bring it up to code.
But hey... not having outlets is a pain, and a backsplash would be nice, but the kitchen is at least finished enough to cook a turkey dinner.
And the stacks of boxes of hardwood didn't get in the way of dinner in the dining room too much!
The hardwood looks great installed in Andrew's room - good start. Bit of a learning curve, but the other rooms are gonna be easier. Course it still looks like a teenage boy's bedroom - even with all his furniture out in the hallway still.
Speaking of flooring ... still piles of it in the office...
... and the bedroom
Stuff for finishing the master bathroom: schulter shower system, cabinets, shower doors
.. and stacks of tiles for it as well
And the kids bathroom
And the doors in the hallway.... 12 bifolds and 3 interior doors...
We were gonna stack em in the garage, but between getting the Jag inside, and the new compressor and then the new front door and side lights - bought off the NL Classifieds... there just wasn't room
So it's all been a Renovating Christmas, maybe next year we'll be prepared in advance without 1000 things on the go on our 'todo' list...
Naw........
It isn't so bad... no missing walls or missing windows. Mostly it's just tricky working around all these piles of building materials.
We built a paint booth in the basement to try and get the trims finished before the holidays. We got em done, but we didn't get em installed
I did get the blackboard for the kitchen painted and mounted in time to leave the familia many notes about cleaning and decorating while I disappeared for a week to Toronto.
Yeah, piles of gear to finish the electrical. The real pain of electrical retrofits isn't the adding an outlet, or installing the new light fitting, it's the obligation to fix all the mistakes made before you got there. Once you open that can of worms you have to bring it up to code.
But hey... not having outlets is a pain, and a backsplash would be nice, but the kitchen is at least finished enough to cook a turkey dinner.
And the stacks of boxes of hardwood didn't get in the way of dinner in the dining room too much!
The hardwood looks great installed in Andrew's room - good start. Bit of a learning curve, but the other rooms are gonna be easier. Course it still looks like a teenage boy's bedroom - even with all his furniture out in the hallway still.
Speaking of flooring ... still piles of it in the office...
... and the bedroom
Stuff for finishing the master bathroom: schulter shower system, cabinets, shower doors
.. and stacks of tiles for it as well
And the kids bathroom
And the doors in the hallway.... 12 bifolds and 3 interior doors...
We were gonna stack em in the garage, but between getting the Jag inside, and the new compressor and then the new front door and side lights - bought off the NL Classifieds... there just wasn't room
So it's all been a Renovating Christmas, maybe next year we'll be prepared in advance without 1000 things on the go on our 'todo' list...
Naw........