Eastside Hippie

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

Spinach

Peas

Peas

Romaine

Mustard greens

Garlic!

Anniversary cherry tree

So much work!

I got so dirty today!

New kitchen light and freshly painted window trim.

New and old paint.

The kitchen is super bright now!

Lisa and Xavier

Carl has no idea what to do with Xavier.

The old window trim color.

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

The two middle shelves will be replaced with glass soon.

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

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

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

Then we have Ronan. He’s been painting himself.

If he keeps it up, I’ll be able to see him at night in the yard.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Instructions are very confusing.

I hate this green. We will repaint soon.

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.

Here’s the street view of our house.

Terra painting kitchen cabinets.

LOL!

Carl labeling cabinet doors.

Pickles and jam!

Home Security FAIL

I found this in the garden today. O_o

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.

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.

Hyacinth.

I took Clunkski outside to enjoy the grass.

I found out today that Clunkski likes to dig.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Living Room

We still need to find a home for the wine.

Dining Room

Accessible from both sides.

Kitchen/Pantry

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.

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 go here!

Wesa’s office/guest room

This room has a skylight.

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

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

A huge mess already.

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:

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).

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.

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

My shoes!

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.