August 29th, 2012
→ look what we’ve been up to! while it’s true progress has slooowwwed down a bit around here (the husband has been doing awesome projects for others so we’re a little behind on our to-do list), we did sneak in this big diy for tinkernation!! have you been following all of the diy’s over there? if not they have some great contributors, contests, tips, and tons more so make sure to say hello and pop over to see all of the details of this project, we tell all about it!!
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June 15th, 2012
we’ve got three new exciting things at our house…..part of our surround sound is installed and making movies much better. the last two pics are speakers that are hidden behind the tv, and…we have more going in the bedroom and both bathrooms. (we kinda like everything loud.. you?)
the vintage fridge is gone and our shiny new french door one is blessfully drip free. (and will probably never be this clean again) and hallelujah for this ceiling fan. here’s the thing, since, for the first time ever, i wasn’t going to be in the south in the summer, it was the perfect chance to finally have a fancy light fixture in the bedroom. but we missed that air flowing down on us at night so much we did not adapt well. this ceiling fan, best-thing-ever.
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April 4th, 2012
→ do you sleep with a noise machine or fan? we sleep with a very loud fan, without that noise we’re completely lost. monday night, 2:30 a.m. and we’re both wide awake because all of a sudden it’s completely silent and that sinking feeling sets in that the power’s out, and it was, until afternoon yesterday. back up for a minute… to get some light in the house i pull open the curtain and cannot believe it but this ↑ is what i was looking at. OYE. it was EIGHTY degrees less than 48 hours ago. it’s kind of an adjustment. we did get everything out of our cargo trailer, we’ve gotten further on the closet, but we feel like boxers dancing around a big to do list. snow, ice, rain, no power. we’re getting there though, we just don’t have much to show for it. have any of you built a house and lived in it at the same time? if you have we know that no explanation is necessary. we’re becoming very well versed in flexibility.
March 15th, 2012
finishing the closet (we’re almost ready to unpack clothes)// dusting, vacuuming, priming // and instead of double doors for the closet, which we realized would make the bedside dresser space minuscule, we downsized to one // wood ceilings in the master bath // plus more mudding, sanding & priming // lots of progress (;
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February 3rd, 2012
→ we’re in the middle of a blizzard ←
2 feet is expected.. a top ten of all time snow storm for the city… welcome to colorado (;
January 16th, 2012
best. best. BEST. thing. ever. depending on the size of your house (and water needs to fit said house) a regular water heater will be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to ? making it most certainly a less expensive way to go for heating your water. but! if your budget allows you to spurge a bit, for our needs to the tune of $1500, you can have a quietside tankless water heater. and for that pretty penny.. you’ll have unlimited (UNLIMITED) hot water. you can take a steaming hot shower for an hour, no problem. got guests, like 10, back-to-back hot showers.. no problem. and can I just tell you… it. is. HEAVEN. i turn the shower on and 30 seconds later it’s piping hot and ready to go for(ever). two things we are pretty much over the moon about…. this and wall mounted toilets with no yucky bases to clean. just saying.. leave a little extra room in the budget, you’ll never regret it.
(~we purchased ours directly from quietside)
January 9th, 2012
the moment you’ve all been waiting for (; well… ok.. that we’ve been waiting for! a shower, hot water! woohoo! it’s not done as you can see, but it’s working, and that is fabulous to us. we knew all along that we wanted a walk-in doorless shower. we didn’t know what material we would use, we thought white subway tile would probably be most affordable (and thus what we would buy). lucky us though, when we went shopping we found beautiful carrera white marble to be only a smidge more, we chose 3×6 tiles for the walls and 12×24 tiles for the floor (the shower floor is 12×24 tiles that were cut to allow sloping to the drain).
we went 10 ft up the shower walls, to the point where the ceiling starts to slope, and then are drywalling the top for a smooth transition to the drywalled shower ceiling. this is the only portion of ceiling in the entire house that will not be blue beetle wood. (due to moisture concerns) the rest of the master bath will have wood, but the shower will not.. also, we put in 6 can lights that would have been a real challenge to cut wood around. in the rest of the bath we went a little less than half way up the walls with tile, leaving the remainder for pictures. we wanted a fancy shmancy, luxury hotel feel and we love it!
i don’t have diy (sean did the drywall & lighting, but for time concerns we hired out the tile installation) photos or in progress photos because of the timing of the work, middle of winter, it was quite cold and the tile guy ensconced himself behind layers of plastic and tarping to maintain high heat in the bathroom while working, and after, to help set the tile. not wanting to intrude i basically stayed away and only at the very end started getting these photos. depending on your time frame (and skill set) would you want to take on a job like this. our bathroom has almost 3000 tiles, that is a.l.o.t. of tile to set and a lot of cutting, making sure the floors lay right, oye and double oye if you don’t know what you’re doing.. even with a professional this job took a ton of time, so be prepared!
January 3rd, 2012
remember this post from what seems like forever and ever ago? back when we had grass…oh how we miss you grass, lush and green and NOT muddy. one day, sigh. anyway, one usually doesn’t brag about passing gas, but we can’t help it, this is the stuff dreams are made of for home builders or renovators. gas! what does this mean? heat! hot water! see what I mean, it’s a big deal. the gas guy came and gave us our brand new meter, we were as happy to see him as just about anyone we’ve seen in a long time. and heat we do have… i’m about 7 layers deep on to-do’s though so more later.
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December 29th, 2011
→ drywall got started and I forgot to show pictures, we were on the move on drywall just before heading east, and after the living and bedroom ceilings were installed is the first thing that got picked back up again. it’s one of the most exciting things so far (who thought drywall could be exciting??) it’s making the house take form like nothing else, we have rooms!! i don’t know how many drywall pictures you want to see, but it’s a work in progress as i type these words. not a lot of diy to walk you through on, but one thing the husband insists on using is screws not nails. with nails, over time, pressure can allow the nails to push out and when you look at a wall closely you can see small indentations where the nails pop. with screws you’re much more tightly fastened and no popping out later.
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December 27th, 2011
we are *super* excited to share this project.. before we left we picked the wood for the ceiling, did we tell that little secret.. that we were doing wood ceilings? this wood is totally new to us, blue beetle wood. it’s tongue & groove, and the blue actually makes it “less desirable” to some so it’s extremely reasonable, yeah for us! we ♥love♥ the blue and are leaving the wood as is so you can really see the color.
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