I have paint on my toes

March 7th, 2010

Edging

We’ve done so much this weekend. Carl installed 2 new hall lights, a new kitchen light, and a new plug (with night light) in the hallway. We planted our anniversary cherry tree, spinach, mustard greens, romaine, garlic, thyme, peas, and pansies. The “ointment” color is about 99.5% covered, and shortly we will use a ladder to get to the last bits of it. It’s been a really good weekend. I’m covered in dirt and paint.

Pansies
Pansies

Spinach
Spinach

Peas
Peas

Peas
Peas

Romaine
Romaine

Mustard Greens
Mustard greens

Garlic
Garlic!

Anniversary Cherry Tree
Anniversary cherry tree

So much work!
So much work!

So dirty!
I got so dirty today!

New kitchen light
New kitchen light and freshly painted window trim.

Old and new paint
New and old paint.

I love this pup

Kitchen is so bright now!
The kitchen is super bright now!

Lisa and X
Lisa and Xavier

Carl actually holding Xavier!
Carl has no idea what to do with Xavier.

Old window trim
The old window trim color.

Paint!

March 4th, 2010

Kitchen
Kitchen is coming along nicely. I can start painting the trim soon.

Kitchen
The two middle shelves will be replaced with glass soon.

Kitchen

Dining room
Mom-in-law removed the ugly brown below the bar. She also covered 95% of the “ointment” color in the rest of the house, by herself!

Hallway
Hallway is so much brighter now. We’re going to replace those two nasty lights.

Fireplace
Fireplace is now “Koi”, though it needs a second coat and edging done.

Fireplace

Fireplace
It’s pretty wild. As it dries, the orange is toning down a tad.

Paint on Ronan's ear
Then we have Ronan. He’s been painting himself.

Paint on Ronan's tail
If he keeps it up, I’ll be able to see him at night in the yard.

Kitchen Progress

February 28th, 2010

Kitchen Paint
Kitchen is progressing quickly after spending most of the weekend on it.

Kitchen Paint
Here’s the light blue (one coat so far) for the wall. I need to paint the trim around the pantry door still. It’s going to be the same coffee cream as the white drawers.

Kitchen Paint
The 3 colors we picked. Coffee cream for the 1 upper cabinet, below the blue cabinets, window and pantry door trim, drawer and cabinet door fronts. Windsurf for the walls. Cayman Bay for the cabinets.

New Hardware
The drawer hardware we picked out is a bit heavier than we were originally thinking, but we wanted to get away from the “country cottage” look.

Hardware

Kitchen Paint
Still need to paint cream under the upper cabinets and the window trim. We spent some time at Seattle Lighting today dreaming of a new light system for above the sink lol.

I painted 2 coats of the cream on the cabinet doors, but need to paint 2 coats on the backside over the next few days. Also need one more coat on the walls as well as painting the trim just to finish 2/3 of the kitchen. Hopefully we’ll finish the rest of it by the end of next weekend.

8 Million Photos (well, more than 10)

February 21st, 2010

Supplies

This is all the hardware/tools needed to replace the front door handle/deadbolt.

Carl reading instructions
Instructions are very confusing.

Carl installing new hardware

Carl installing new hardware

New door hardware
I hate this green. We will repaint soon.

Ronan in the yard
Ronan loves the yard. He lays out there with his ball whenever we let him. The entire yard isn’t fenced yet, though we did install the basic fencing for a dog run today.

Outside View
Here’s the street view of our house.

Terra Painting
Terra painting kitchen cabinets.

Terra Painting
LOL!

Labeling doors
Carl labeling cabinet doors.

New paint
Pickles and jam!

Hinges outside
Home Security FAIL

Found in the garden
I found this in the garden today. O_o

Progress

February 21st, 2010

Progress, originally uploaded by ~wesa~.

This is what we’ve accomplished today (or rather, my mom-in-law). The cabinet doors have been sanded but not painted. We need to paint a second layer on everything. Also we’ve only done about half the kitchen so far. After it’s all painted, we’ll get new hardware for the drawers.

The Great Outdoors!

February 17th, 2010

Primroses!
I planted primroses today.

I only used my camera phone, but you’ll get the idea. I raked up pinecones/needles, and weeded a bit.

Yay!

We have flowers!
Hyacinth.

Clunkski enjoys the yard
I took Clunkski outside to enjoy the grass.

Huh, they do dig
I found out today that Clunkski likes to dig.

Kitty enjoying the sun
Kitty too, but she managed to find her way around the gate, so I tossed her back in the house.

I also said hi to 2 of our direct neighbors and a woman who lives a few streets down.

Yay!

February 14th, 2010

Carl is putting in the new front door and back door locks tonight! We are also making a ginormous lasagna (for dinner tonight and lunches this week). We just finished filing our tax returns (cha-ching!) though it will be a bit before the check is deposited in our account, as we have to mail in documents to basically prove we bought a house and stuff.

My research study only has one more weekend worth of runs, then it’s just working on data. Whew, I’ll be happy when it’s over. I’m going in for both Saturday and Sunday, double runs, which means I’ll put in about 14 hours over the weekend for the study. Just about done with that!

Picked a paint color for the kitchen cabinets and started removing doors to TSP them. It’ll be a few weeks before we get everything done, but it should look 100x better, at least until we get around to a full remodel.

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We had a tag made for Kitty. Carl apparently let her outside yesterday for a few hours while he was off running errands. Now she has a reflective collar and my phone number on her tag. Mmhmm.

Lol Home Depot

Then we went to Home Depot and spent $240 on Coarse Sand Shits.

I think we’ll have the housewarming on March 20th. This is to be confirmed though.

House Photos (inside edition)

February 11th, 2010

Over the years, Carl and I have shared many spaces: a studio apartment for 13 months, renting a house with a third person, a 2-bedroom apartment and lastly, a 700 square foot 1 bedroom apartment. We are really enjoying the amount of space we have now.

To note:  we haven’t put up any artwork (except the clock and the Lioness because we plan on having the walls retextured and painted.  The official color of the main room is “Ointment”, a nasty color.

Lioness

The Lioness is the first thing you see when you walk in (though from a different angle).

Living Room

Living Room

Fireplace/Dining Room

We still need to find a home for the wine.

Dining Room

Dining Room

Dishes

Accessible from both sides.

Kitchen/Pantry

Stove

Yes, those are chemistry goggles. Ever get chili oil in your eye?

I am going to paint the cabinets, probably white or off-white, so that I can stand to be in that super-dark kitchen until we remodel.  I am also going to change out the hardware.

Pantry

When we get around to remodeling the kitchen, I’m going to remove this washer/dryer set and convert this into a full pantry.

Cookbooks!

Cookbooks go here!

Wesa’s office/guest room

Wesa's Office/Guest Room

This room has a skylight.

Wesa's Office/Guest Room

I think the guest bed will go here, but I am not positive. First I need to unpack books/office stuff, then buy a bed for the room.

Carl’s office/Cat-free room

Carl's Office

It was impossible to have a cat-free room in a 1-bedroom apartment. Now we have space for that.

Carl's Office

A huge mess already. :P

Kitty’s bathroom

Kitty's Bathroom

Technically this is the main floor guest bathroom, but we put Kitty’s water dish, food dishes, and litter box (behind the shower curtain in the tub) in here, so it’s her room by default.  I installed a spray hose attachment to the shower head so I can give Ronan baths as well.

Bedroom:

Bedroom

Once we figure out what color we want to paint the bedroom (I’m thinking gray or blue), we’ll pick up a new duvet cover (since we don’t have one currently).

Bedroom

Bedroom

Door, walk in closet, and full master bath.  I’ve been saying I am going to paint that stupid dresser and replace the hardware on it for close to 6 years now (I picked it up at a garage sale).  Maybe I should do that this year.

Full master bath

Master Bathroom.  The sink leaks (annoying!) and we need another towel rack, but we replaced the shower head already.

Closet

My shoes!

Sold

February 3rd, 2010

SOLD!!!

The final days…

February 3rd, 2010

Front entrance

We’re heading over to the new house shortly to do the final walk through. Hopefully tomorrow we will sign the loan paperwork and take possession on Friday. We have so much to do in the next few days: transferring the utilities to our name, ordering Internet, packing up the last of our stuff, arranging help from friends to move us over, cleaning the apartment…

This has already been one of the busiest weeks for me (between school, the research study, and volunteering) and for Carl (work work and more work). I’m glad we have the energy to do this.