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Our back hallway is finished and looking like it used to (with the exception of the changed/moved walls). I primed on Tuesday, painted the walls on Wednesday and finished by painting the ceiling and all the wood trim today. So the back hall now matches up beautifully with the rest of the hall. Also, since [...]

Randye has an off day, and what does she do. Watch daytime TV? No. Shopping? Not! Waste the day away? Hardly. But she took the time to finish sanding some spackled areas in the hall. Then she primed the back hall walls, ceiling and trim. Then she swapped out door hardware on a couple of [...]

The granite counters arrived and were installed today, and the counter company has continued its less-than-stellar service record. (We previously had to come up with a solution with an extra piece of granite near the refrigerator because they guy who took measurements didn’t account for a cabinet piece, despite the fact that our contractor was [...]

It’s been a crazy-busy weekend, starting on Friday. We spent approximately 15 hours working on our kitchen this weekend. Rather than spend the money to have the contractors deal with the finishing work on the wood columns and assorted trim pieces, we decided to take that on ourselves. After cleaning the chimney on Thursday, Randye [...]

While I was out on a wild goose chase for wood filler that closely matched the color of our trim to fill in the nail holes, Randye was getting things done. After decades of exposure to dusty 2x4s and drywall, the exposed chimney was in need of some TLC. Wielding a scrub brush and a [...]

Nothing to report today. Yesterday, one contractor was here, finishing up the baseboards, the shelves by the pantry and a few other random trim tidbits. At the end of the day, Randye and I tackled some of the dust on the floors so we can start to feel like it’s our house again. We are [...]

Friday was more trim, trim, trim work, but with the exception of baseboards, it’s pretty much done. And . . . the hood is up! (It’s not wired up yet, but it’s there.) It hangs a little lower than we had pictured (I never was good at math), but it’s high enough over the range [...]

So, Thursday was a rough day. The morning progressed uneventfully. Our gorgeous hardware started to get installed. Yay! But shortly after lunch, the contractor decided he wanted to confirm the granite company’s measurements (a week after they took them). Well, better safe than sorry. But it was revealed that we’d likely have a 1/4″ gap [...]

Nothing major to report today. Only one of the contractors showed up and he worked on more of the trim around the column areas to the main entry of the kitchen from the hallway. We also wrapped up a frustrating saga with Home Depot trying to get some unfinished oak transition strips that cover the [...]

More finish work today. The foreman, who has proven himself to be a master finish carpenter, has been dazzling us with his skill, creating columns and beautiful trim that Randye and I dreamt about. And before our eyes, the kitchen of our dreams is starting to come together. Today, we discovered shelves in our cabinets, [...]