Early Christmas

Baby it's cold in our fridge! 
Today I arrived home to find a few gigantic Christmas gifts on their way into the house.  

Floors!!!!

Voila!
Oh happy day, our floors have been transformed! The old doug fir kitchen/bedrooms and white oak living room look amazing... and temporarily smell awful. 

Trim

Finding an exact trim molding match to complete our new wall between the living room and kitchen proved to be quite a feat!  After using up every last scrap of trim molding we had saved after our multi-stepped crazed demolition... Ryan made a trip to the Rebuilding Center and got lucky.   It looks beautiful Ryan, well done!

Color Theory

Gabriel's Light:

Otis Madera:

Dreaming of the day:

Gray & Wild Oats:

Whose junk is this anyway?

So the other day Aunt Jane, her lovely little truck, a load of our construction junk, and I all loaded up and headed to the dump!  It took us 10 minutes to load the truck, 10 minutes to get to the dump, and 10 minutes to drop the load.  (Plus 10 more minutes to purchase the perfect christmas tree on the way back to the house.)  The little tree will look great in front of your fireplace Jane! Nice pick, and thank you again.

 

Clamp-tastic

You can never use too many clamps. 
(Thanks for all the clamps Grant.)

Beyond a simple paint job...

This past holiday weekend we knocked out more than just a few small projects... we scraped, washed, primed, painted, sanded, repainted, caulked, mudded, sanded some more, used the shop vac every 30 minutes, and transplanted some random perennials.  

We love the new color in the living room and are very excited to have our kitchen and bathroom window frames back in place.  We've said goodbye to the old wallpaper in the kitchen nook and Ryan only has a few minor putty knife induced finger cuts to deal with.  Thank you again to the honored "Guest of the day" and the paint shop master.

Ryan: "Check out my cool new drill pack."

Super Excited Painter: "These are awesome!"