Comments (0) Updated photos are posted. We have recently worked on the master bathroom (shower door, mirror, basins) and just ordered lights for the mirror wall, installed sconces in the master bedroom (oops – I need to add photos of that!), and definitely check out the pumpkin we are saving for Thanksgiving pumpkin pie.
I know everyone has been waiting to see what the house looks like after all the work, so enjoy the fruits of our labor. 
I haven’t posted for a while, but having been convinced today to take a picture of the progress, I figured I’d post the picture up online and write a little update.
Today I finished, or came close to finishing, the master bathroom vanity. We’ve been living without one for just over a year and a half now. We’re almost ready to brush our teeth in a real sink. Exciting.
Here’s what it’s looking like so far:
We should have some shower glass coming in the next few weeks, as well as the mirror for behind the vanity.
So it stopped raining about 1/2 hour later, and then took another hour or so to dry. I went at it again and got the tar paper up by around 6 and then started shingling the roof, starting, of course, on the side that is the hardest to see from the sides of the house or the back and laid the first set of tiles from there.
Below are some pictures from later in the day (bigger this time):
This morning I went to the doctor’s office, then went out an picked up some materials at Roof Mart. I then started installing the eaves drip aluminium around the edges, which involved changing out some of the sheeting. I then started on the underlayment and it’s now raining.
So here’s some pics of what’s done so far today:
It was a long day working on the roof. I was annoyed at Bin There Dump That who arrived at noon and said they had to take the bin away two hours later. I felt like I was working on their schedule and frantically worked to get as much in the bin as possible before they arrived back. They didn’t actually arrive back until about 3, but I’m not sure whether that was good or bad, because i spent a lot of time getting stuff into the bin for their first arrival time. I was once fans of their, but not so much any more.
Otherwise it was a nice day to be working outside. My muscles are aching and I probably drank about 5 litres of water over the day because it was so hot.
Here’s some pictures:
Ya, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. And lots has happened since then. Work on the 3rd floor, lots of work on trim around the house, and most recently a new front door.
Today I’m roofing the garage at the back. I’ve started collecting some pictures of the job which, hopefully, I’ll post later in the day. It’s a beautiful day to be outside doing this as the sun is out and the temperature is in the mid 20s.
More later today, I hope.
Our wordpress hasn’t been working for about a month or so and I hadn’t had the time to fix it. I finally got to it today and we can now post again. I’m going to also try and get some more pictures up soon.
Lots of action happened before Christmas and I’ll post some of those pics up soon.
I haven’t been blogging much lately. So much going on, including some things with the house.
Last Thursday Fred had a day off his other job and so he came over and we finally put the subfloor in on the 3rd floor. it was a long day, and a lot of hard work, but it’s finally ready for hardwood. The whole floor is pretty much level – albeit about 2-3 inches above the old hardwood floor. It’s looking much cleaner up there.
I then went and picked up more trim at Central Fairbank Lumber and set up another painting process over the weekend, both priming and putting down a first layer of paint.
Another little project I took care of was installing a shelf and coat rack in the main floor closet. It looks good.
Over the weekend we also purchased – or put the deposit down on – a light for over the kitchen island. We thought it looked good in the store, and hopefully it’ll look good over the island in the kitchen.
While driving downtown we also came across a bankruptcy sale from a store called UpCountry. We ended up seeing a bedroom set which we bought, cash, from one of the creditors who seemed to be there selling the inventory off. Great price and nice stuff! Today i picked up the bureau and nightstand, which were very heavy and barely fit into the back of the Hyundai.
So on my list of things to do is to take some pictures and post them up here. It’s been too long. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll take some time to get some shots of all the new baseboards and post them up on the dot mac site. It’s probably been 4-5 months since the last post.
Last Friday we did a little trip to Buffalo to do some shopping. Among some other things we picked up, we got a compressor and nail gun. Fred had left a chop saw from some work we did on the trim earlier in the week so over the weekend I finished the baseboards on the first floor, which was mostly the little strips on the edges. On Sunday Aman came over and helped.
There’s still some window trim to do, both on the first floor and in the master bedroom, and, of course, the third floor. I’ll need to get some more at Fairbank to do the master bedroom, as I had forgotten those windows when I purchased the last round of trim.
More to come.
In the last little bit, we have started making more improvements on the house, and purchasing more accessories! For example, last weekend we bought a beautiful gas grill at The Home Depot and got it connected to our gas two days later. We have already had several meals cooked on the barbecue and expect many more. It is a really nice grill, with side burners, a temperature gauge and a rotisserie. As it is nearing the end of summer, all the grills were on sale so we were able to get a nicer one than we’d planned. Sometimes waiting has advantages! We took some photos of our grill, so we’ll link soon!
In addition to getting the grill hooked up, we finally got our stove hooked up too last weekend. What a change to be able to bake and use the stove top! It cooks so fast! I cannot believe we lived for 8 months without a proper stove or oven. The things you get used to…
We have also had some fixes to our kitchen. The Calders came this week and retreated the butcher block so it looks even better now. They also replaced the glass in the cabinets to the ribbed glass which we love. We will take more pictures and post. It isn’t easy because we destoyed our digital camera on our canoeing trip and are using the video camera to take stills. We’ll get there.
Anyway, my parents are coming today and they will see our house for the first time. It sure looks different from when we bought it!
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