Entries Tagged as ‘House’

October 12, 2006

Bye Bye Birchie

We’ve had a huge birch tree in front of our house for the last 50 years or so.  While it is a great tree, it unfortunately was going to be in the middle of our new living room.  We can’t have a giant tree blocking the TV, so it had to go.

The whole process seems [...]

October 3, 2006

What’s white, has a chainsaw and smells like fruit?

Me.

Spent the weekend preparing the backyard for laying the foundation by taking down  an orange tree and a lemon tree.  Working on getting an after photo now.  The orange tree (right tree in pic) is more or less where our master bedroom is going.  The lemon tree, is where our back patio is going to [...]

April 11, 2006

Home Expo

We made our first of probably many trips to Home Expo this weekend.  One of the contractors that we talked with cautioned us against going there based on the quality of the materials that they have, especially in cabinetry, but we went anyway because it never stops raining here and the kids are tired of [...]

April 3, 2006

Before (Hopefully) Pictures

It stopped raining this weekend in Northern California for the first time since Reagan was Governor and I was able to get out and take some pictures of the place. These will be the before pictures. One lookatSchnaars Manor and you will understand why we need to remodel. We love the location, but we have [...]