Next project

Not too much got done today besides some shopping. We finally settled on the tile for the guest bath. Hopefully I will get started on it tomorrow.

Head start to the weekend

I had a half day to work on the house so I knocked out some more of the master bedroom hardwood floor that I started last weekend. Once you get going nailing down the planks goes pretty fast. The first row takes and hour or so to get it perfect then you just keep the boards tight and nail them down. The bamboo looks great against the dark paint. There's still white trim and baseboard that needs to get installed so that should lighten up the walls a little bit too.

Not sure what all we'll tackle this weekend, but we still need to pick out tiles for the bathroom so we can get those done and move upstairs in the next month or so. With the holidays coming up we should have some extra time to make some progress on the upstairs. We both want to unwrap the tub and get it installed!

Nothing too exciting

Another weekend passed. Both of us had to work yesterday so not a lot got done. I painted all the closets and the upstairs hallway today. Hopefully next weekend we can start the flooring upstairs and start making some progress. Other than that not too much went on. We did finally dig out the fireplace just in time for some nice fires on these cold nights.

Prep work

There was a lot of busy work and prep work this weekend. I finished some of the electrical in the master bedroom. We are pushing to finish the bedroom and bathroom so we can move upstairs. The bathroom floors were uneven and we learned the hard way what happens when you lay tile on an uneven floor. Self leveling compound does a great job and is relatively easy to do. Just mix with water and pour on the floor. You only have a few minutes of working time so you do have to work fast. Now the floors are level and we should be ready for tile.... If we ever pick any out that is.

Here's a couple pictures of our marble slab we picked out. Can't wait to get this installed!

Starting the second floor

We started work over the weekend on the master bedroom.  As you might notice, the master bedroom currently houses things like our chop saw and bathtub (hiding from potential damage under the big white box) so it doesn't look very masterful or much like a bedroom at the moment but at least it is now painted.  My blackberry camera seems to be casting the walls in a purplish color but they are actually a dark grey.  We went with a dark color because the bedroom gets so much light and will have a great deal of white trim once we add baseboards, crown moulding, and window trim (someday).  Next up will be clearing out the room and laying the floor - and then we can start to move some of our stuff out of the living room and upstairs to a bedroom!

Another day closer

I had the day off so I installed our cabinets pulls. Stuff like this is tedious but it does makes it a lot easier to use our cabinets since they are full overlays and there's not much room to grab the doors. We went with IKEA lansa pulls since they're relatively inexpensive and they go well with the cabinets and appliances. The back of the island got a simple IKEA strecket pull so they are not a noticeable, but still useful.

More kitchen work

We cleaned up the kitchen a bit and started getting more organized today. It's starting to feel like a usable space again. There are now temporary counters until we get our new ones. We ended up deciding to go with Carrera marble and hopefully we will have them installed in a couple weeks. The dining space got a new light fixture as well as one of our Flor rugs we had laying around. The microwave got moved to the pantry so I had to run a new circuit in there for it. A lot of small details were finished today even if it doesn't look like much.