Landscaping

I hate the idea of spending a bunch of money on landscaping and I’m appalled by how much it costs to put a bunch of grass, stone & plants in your yard. It is amazing to me. Yet, when faced with weekends of schleping away in the hot sun doing something that I [...]

Waiting

“The waiting is the hardest part” - Tom Petty - The Waiting
Dude, he wasn’t kidding.  I feel like a kid during the first week December when he knows Santa is bringing a new bike.  I knew that the finish work took a long time, but the thing that I didn’t realize was how invisible it [...]

D’oh, Wrong Color

There is not much weirder than pulling up to your house and having it be a.) A different color and b.) Not quite the right color.
This is partially our fault.  One of the things that we’ve discovered in this process is that we have some unusual neighbors.  One of whom is very particular about [...]

Stilt Walking is Rad

I think that stilt walking is pretty cool. When I see these guys, I think of that episode of the X-Files where the drywall guy was killing people, but showing up in their pictures before hand.   I know, it’s dorky, but these guys are amazing in their agility and skill to do their jobs, [...]

Garage Days Re-Revisited

Since Metallica were such a bunch of bastards about the whole Napster thing, I’m stealing one of their titles for my post.

I spoke with Sig at Morgan Hill Garage Door Company today.  It was a pretty simple process of picking out our garage door.  He said go to the website, pick out a door and [...]

2 Months of Progress

When we started this project, we were told that it would be 6 - 8 months depending on the rain.  We’ve lucked out (sorry farmers) and have had little to no rain this season.  Since we’ve had no down days, I’ll go with the 6 months.  Here is a quick progression of pictures once per [...]

Bay Custom Cabinets

We’ve been having a bunch of conversations with Dan O’Bannon of Bay Custom Cabinets lately.  Dan is going to be doing our kitchen, laundry & bathroom cabinets.  So far, we really like him a lot and the designs as outlined above are coming along nicely.
If you’ve seen the pictures of our soon to be kitchen, [...]

Spectacle Electrical

I met with Bill from BLR Electric this week. We had a great meeting, but per my previous post about making decisions, the decisions associated with high voltage (110 / 220 (dryer & range)) were immense. We had all types of discussions on where to put can lights versus dome lights. Where [...]

Decisions, decisions, decisions

I really haven’t been in the mood lately to do much writing.  My personal blog has taken a bit of a hit as well.  Between work, family and actually building this house, the amount of free time to do recreational writing has taken a bit of a back seat.  Any who, we are starting to [...]

Starting to Look Like a Real House

Wow!!! It is really starting to look like a real house.  This is very exciting.  We’ve (’they’ve’, I really haven’t done anything) made a ton of progress in the past few weeks.   It is just amazing to watch.
Here is where we stand.  The interior supports to keep everything level are gone.  This means we [...]