We'd been looking for ages and coming up dry. Our prior table was too small to have family events, and it really didn't go with the house at all. And we were able to buy locally too.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Gratuitous New Purchase Post
Looky looky! New dining room set!
We'd been looking for ages and coming up dry. Our prior table was too small to have family events, and it really didn't go with the house at all. And we were able to buy locally too.
We'd been looking for ages and coming up dry. Our prior table was too small to have family events, and it really didn't go with the house at all. And we were able to buy locally too.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Busy Girl
Wow, has it been since April? I've been insanely busy.
I go in spurts on the house. Been focusing on the yard as I enjoy an actually opportunity to spend some time outside. With a fairly wild yard like mine it is fairly amazing how much work it takes to simply keep it contained.
Since I'm a picture whore, here's some shots of a few things I've had going on
The old hallway light
And the all purty new one (Rejuvenation!)
Now this little project has taken a gabillion trips to the paint shop.
The window trim turned out to be a bit too bright white in the full sun. So I toned it down a notch. Now, in the shade, you can't tell the difference between the window trim and the light shade of yellow. *Sigh* This is taking*forever* to do.
So I peeled back the carpet where my cat had been peeing
These are aching to be exposed, but the carpet is still pretty new and I can't justify it. I ended up putting plastic down been the floor and the carpet pad to prevent any further peeing from hitting the wood. The enzyme stuff takes care of the smell but I still worry.
With hubby going from a comparatively safe part of Iraq to really not-so safe part of Iraq soon I got myself a cute distraction
His name is Henry.
I go in spurts on the house. Been focusing on the yard as I enjoy an actually opportunity to spend some time outside. With a fairly wild yard like mine it is fairly amazing how much work it takes to simply keep it contained.
Since I'm a picture whore, here's some shots of a few things I've had going on
The old hallway light
And the all purty new one (Rejuvenation!)
Now this little project has taken a gabillion trips to the paint shop.
The window trim turned out to be a bit too bright white in the full sun. So I toned it down a notch. Now, in the shade, you can't tell the difference between the window trim and the light shade of yellow. *Sigh* This is taking*forever* to do.
So I peeled back the carpet where my cat had been peeing
These are aching to be exposed, but the carpet is still pretty new and I can't justify it. I ended up putting plastic down been the floor and the carpet pad to prevent any further peeing from hitting the wood. The enzyme stuff takes care of the smell but I still worry.
With hubby going from a comparatively safe part of Iraq to really not-so safe part of Iraq soon I got myself a cute distraction
His name is Henry.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
I'm always giving myself hell in that way only overly ambitious, type A personality can do. I'm constantly berating myself for not ever getting nearly as much done on the house as I'd like.
To remind myself:
To remind myself:
- Hubby is in Iraq. Thank you Mr Gates for another three months with out him!
- I work, including my commutes, 12 hour days, every day. I do get my every other Friday off, but I've got this unfortunate habit of going into work on them. Like much is getting done in the 2 hours before bedtime.
- I can clean house or I can fix the house. They typically don't mix. Errands and chores get neglected when fixing things.... who really needs to cook and buy food? I eat toast for at least two meals a day on the weekends. Peanut butter, it's what's for dinner!
- Next is the yard. My really really big yard, without any sort of irrigation. I can battle weeds, or could refinish the floor in the entry. Weeds grow back, and I get admonished by my landscaper mother-in-law.
- An then of course there is a variety of organizations to which I belong, hobbies that get neglected, my meager social life, etc etc.
- And of course, the ever present call of the Internet!
Sunday, April 8, 2007
A rare reason for lack of posting...
Hubby came home from Iraq for two weeks. Lets just say very little of substance got done around the house while he was home.
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The biggest thing we did was pick out paint colors, and play around with them on the back of the house. He had fun with that, he'll be pretty good at color selection after a bit. Doubt he'd admit that to anyone but me (hehehe). Still need to narrow down the window colors.
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Lets see... I got the evol pepper trees pruned back big time. It is a amazing how fast those trees grow, and what incredibly messy they are. You couldn't even pull up in front of the house without hitting some of the branch, though I'd pruned it back last year.
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I got the side door lock replaced, finally. The rounded off screw in the door frame had to be dug out, it wasn't budging an inch (even with a special drill bit). Now the lock can actually engage, what a concept!
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My little Miss Priss Kitty has given me quite the head ache. She won't go to the bathroom outside, insisting on a litter box. I keep in the garage, and somewhat intentionally forget about it to encourage her to go outside. Instead she started peeing on the carpet in the living room. A black light helped identify the exact spots she'd gone (I got all CSI on the kitty) but the enzyme cleaners don't seem to have worked all the well. I ripped up the carpet to make sure the hardwood wasn't damaged, and it looks good.
Hubby came home from Iraq for two weeks. Lets just say very little of substance got done around the house while he was home.
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The biggest thing we did was pick out paint colors, and play around with them on the back of the house. He had fun with that, he'll be pretty good at color selection after a bit. Doubt he'd admit that to anyone but me (hehehe). Still need to narrow down the window colors.
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Lets see... I got the evol pepper trees pruned back big time. It is a amazing how fast those trees grow, and what incredibly messy they are. You couldn't even pull up in front of the house without hitting some of the branch, though I'd pruned it back last year.
**********************
I got the side door lock replaced, finally. The rounded off screw in the door frame had to be dug out, it wasn't budging an inch (even with a special drill bit). Now the lock can actually engage, what a concept!
**********************
My little Miss Priss Kitty has given me quite the head ache. She won't go to the bathroom outside, insisting on a litter box. I keep in the garage, and somewhat intentionally forget about it to encourage her to go outside. Instead she started peeing on the carpet in the living room. A black light helped identify the exact spots she'd gone (I got all CSI on the kitty) but the enzyme cleaners don't seem to have worked all the well. I ripped up the carpet to make sure the hardwood wasn't damaged, and it looks good.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Camera help!
Before I change my mind and decide to go reward myself with (ugh) a new paint job for the house instead for my promotion, I need help picking out a digital SLR camera!
I'm having so much trouble picking between the Nikon D80 and the Canon Rebel XTi that I'm about to say screw it and spend it on otherwise guilt free house stuff. The Nikon is a better camera all around, but it has the price tag to prove it. Help! Is it worth it?
I'm having so much trouble picking between the Nikon D80 and the Canon Rebel XTi that I'm about to say screw it and spend it on otherwise guilt free house stuff. The Nikon is a better camera all around, but it has the price tag to prove it. Help! Is it worth it?
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Paint colors!
I picked up a copy of Bungalow Colors to help start the creative juices flow on house colors. Excellent book, though I wish it had more stucco homes.
So here is what I'm thinking of:
It is a six color scheme. The colors aren't exact by far (it is a pale yellow on my computer), this is really more of a test of concept to see if I could do the two tone main paint colors. I'm debating on if I should do the window trim and sash in different colors, but I didn't feel like spending the extra time photo shopping.
So here is what I'm thinking of:
It is a six color scheme. The colors aren't exact by far (it is a pale yellow on my computer), this is really more of a test of concept to see if I could do the two tone main paint colors. I'm debating on if I should do the window trim and sash in different colors, but I didn't feel like spending the extra time photo shopping.
Friday, March 9, 2007
House Plans
Over time we're going to finish off the ground floor of our house, but we're debating about floor plans.
We've got a very typical floor plan for a bungalow, as you can see here in my little drawing
Look! No door into the back bedroom! ;) oops.
What is cool is that the living space is on the second floor of the home, very typical in the Bay Area. What is *really* *really* cool is that the ground floor was never finished
It is a blank slate. I've got the entire footprint of the house just waiting to be finished off, after we've replaced the electric and plumbing. Here's what I'm thinking about at the moment
As you go toward the front of the house, the ceiling gets rather low as the house is on a hill. So I think it will do best as storage, maybe a work out room at most. The second bathroom is probably what will get done first.
The only problem is I don't need quite that much space for my sewing room. The washer/dryer in the drawing (next to the sink) is in the same place it currently is, to minimize cost. We want to add on to the back of the house some day, a two story addition that'll add a family room and another bedroom downstairs, and a real master suite upstairs. Which means the sewing/laundry room would be a pass through.
Maybe someday ground floor addition
Maybe someday main floor addition
The above arrangement is better on the trip to the bathroom from the proposed addition, but doesn't use the larger space well. Would it be worth it to move the washer/dryer to the other side (near the plumbing from the kitchen), to make better use of the larger space as a bedroom?
We've got a very typical floor plan for a bungalow, as you can see here in my little drawing
Look! No door into the back bedroom! ;) oops.
What is cool is that the living space is on the second floor of the home, very typical in the Bay Area. What is *really* *really* cool is that the ground floor was never finished
It is a blank slate. I've got the entire footprint of the house just waiting to be finished off, after we've replaced the electric and plumbing. Here's what I'm thinking about at the moment
As you go toward the front of the house, the ceiling gets rather low as the house is on a hill. So I think it will do best as storage, maybe a work out room at most. The second bathroom is probably what will get done first.
The only problem is I don't need quite that much space for my sewing room. The washer/dryer in the drawing (next to the sink) is in the same place it currently is, to minimize cost. We want to add on to the back of the house some day, a two story addition that'll add a family room and another bedroom downstairs, and a real master suite upstairs. Which means the sewing/laundry room would be a pass through.
Maybe someday ground floor addition
Maybe someday main floor addition
The above arrangement is better on the trip to the bathroom from the proposed addition, but doesn't use the larger space well. Would it be worth it to move the washer/dryer to the other side (near the plumbing from the kitchen), to make better use of the larger space as a bedroom?
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