Sunday, the new stairs went up. I was really impressed that, at the end of just one weekend, we had brand new stairs. They look great. It's really cool to see some major progress on the inside of the house.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
New Stairs
Last weekend we undertook a pretty large project. When I say 'we' I mostly mean Craig with the help of my moral support and occasional assistance:) Anyway, we took Friday off (since it was my birthday and all) and then got to work early Saturday. It only took about 20 min to get the old stairs down. Putting up the new ones took a bit longer. After the first day of work, Craig had everything prepped but we weren't ready to start building the new stairs yet. That meant going to Home Depot and investing in a taller ladder so that we could access the upstairs. I have a slight fear of heights and freaked out a little every time I needed to go downstairs via the ladder. Craig on the other hand could to a complete ballet routine on the top rung.
Sunday, the new stairs went up. I was really impressed that, at the end of just one weekend, we had brand new stairs. They look great. It's really cool to see some major progress on the inside of the house.
Sunday, the new stairs went up. I was really impressed that, at the end of just one weekend, we had brand new stairs. They look great. It's really cool to see some major progress on the inside of the house.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
And were back...
It's been so long since I've posted that the blog address doesn't even auto-populate in my browser anymore. Not to fear, we've been steadily making progress on the house. We've now lived here almost a month and a half which is hard to believe. I made the mistake of storing our winter clothes when we moved out of the apartment in August because we could have used them starting about two weeks ago. Yes, fall has arrived here in the Pacific Northwest which means rain and winds. I've always defended Seattle weather, but when you don't have heat and have some lingering holes in your exterior walls, the weather becomes quite the foe. Craig closed and insulated most of the holes this weekend which has helped but sweats have definitely become the standard dress around the mansion.
Craig has been doing a lot of work in our "Great Room." We needed to replace the support beams which hold up the second story floor because they weren't up to code and just didn't look good because they weren't uniform size. In order to do that, Craig needed to build temporary walls, remove the hold beams and then we put up the new ones.
Craig has been doing a lot of work in our "Great Room." We needed to replace the support beams which hold up the second story floor because they weren't up to code and just didn't look good because they weren't uniform size. In order to do that, Craig needed to build temporary walls, remove the hold beams and then we put up the new ones.
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