Like you didn’t see that coming. The cabinets are installed! Oh what a difference a day makes. The installers did a good job too! I only had to fix two drawers… so far. First, they installed the silverware tray backwards and they decided to omit the screws for the track in the towkick drawer. But […]
Sometimes life surprises you by distilling your life into one short sentence. Today, I drove home to find this sign in my yard. I might as well keep it there until we move out.
The cabinets came today! I was told that the delivery was going to be between 11:00 and 3:00, but they didn’t arrive until 4:30. That was probably because the shipping company was making deliveries all day and my order filled 3/4 of the truck. 34 boxes in total. Most importantly, I’ve only got one more […]
I just got confirmation that the cabinets arrive this Friday! I’ve got a lot of work to do.
Well, I haven’t been blogging in a while, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been getting anything done. Quite the contrary. This weekend I had a great time with some fraternity brothers in the mountains, so I didn’t get a lot done on the house. However, it was a much needed break, because… The subfloor […]
My house has been hiding some dirty little secrets. The photos below are not for the meek. There are years and years and years and years of spills, grossness, grime, a little mold, and some water warping. I don’t really know yet how I am going to fix it. I cannot cut off the offending […]
I got an email from Diamond verifying that a maple tree has been felled, sawn into lumber, kiln dried, and is now being squared, formed, planed, dadoed, grooved, ripped, sawn, routed, sanded, stained, and assembled into our new cabinets. They dont know exactly when the the cabinets will be done, but they expect that delivery will occur some […]
I hate plumbing. I do. It just pisses me off. I don’t mind starting a project from scratch, but what I do mind is fixing someone else’s work. When you plumb for the first time, you can set everything up very nicely. Lay out your work, cut all your pieces to size, glue, thread, or […]
Oh man was it hot today. I spent about 4 hours in my car today, and serendipitously my air conditioner decided to completely crap out… again. I have a thermometer in my car’s air vent to tell me the temperature of the air, so I can keep tabs on my A/C system that I rebuilt. […]
My flooring was due in on the 25th of May and my cabinets were supposed to arrive in late July. I have already brought my flooring home and I just got an email from Diamond (our cabinet manufacturer, if you can’t guess) saying that they preliminarily expect to ship out our new cabinets on June […]