Last Few Months at the House
6 11 2009Finally I have gotten round to getting some photos uploaded! We are officially moved in, the mortgage has been completed, and we are “done”, although I don’t think the work will ever stop! There’s some niggly trim work to complete, a few touch-ups, there will be on-going stucco maintenance and inspections, fire wood to cut and split, a wood shed to build, the storage/garden shed to finish and organize, an addition in the next couple of years probably, landscaping, a garden or two, walkways, decks, etc… But for the next little while we are going to take it easy and enjoy a little break!
Enjoy the photos!
Forms for the concrete countertops. Keith wanted to try his hand at concrete countertops and we volunteered as the test case!
No photos of the pour itself, we were to busy trying to keep ahead of the setting concrete to take photos. Keith, Cayden and I did the pour in a couple hours or so.
Here are the kitchen counters in place after a nervous truck ride up from Keith’s shop, no cracks from transport though!
And here is the bathroom vanity with it’s top. I made the vanity from leftover cedar lumber we had.
The bathroom shower fully tiled and grouted, it’s one of my favourite parts of the house now!
Izmo on our bed the first night we stayed at the house, she was pretty amused to see our bed here in what had always just been “that place Dad spends his evenings…”
Fixing stucco, we switched to lime stucco last fall and the areas where we simply went over the old caly finish coat it didn’t adhere as the clay was too smooth. So grooves were scored in the underlying clay for the lime stucco to key into.
Kitchen counter-tops ready for carnuba/beeswax/oil finish
The kitchen nears completion!
Couch is brought up and instantly makes the house feel like a home! Note the pile of tools still in the foreground.
Stove and fridge are in place!
As well as the dishwasher and coffeemaker!
The funky blue sectional gets set-up too!
Thanksgiving dinner at our place, I filled up our firewood nook for the day although the cooking and number of people made having a fire unnecessary that day!
Debie and Izzy chillin on the couch.
Dad and Keith having a drink and waiting for supper. (Ignore the dirty windows!)
We had two tables set up for extra mouths to feed for Thanksgiving.
Izzy outside the house, at this point we have just the north wall to paint. The wall facing the camera in this photo was done first and has held up to at least 4 hard rains with wind since being finished, so far so good.
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