Phase 2

Getting started on phase 2 of the house project. We just got our building permit this week and excavation starts next week. 400 concrete blocks are impatiently waiting to be placed now.

Countertop

Finally finsihed the upper countertop between the kitchen and dining room.

Living Room Paint

Bellevue has joined Complete Streets and I cant wait to see the outcome! Click to see presentation

Future Projects & Planning

Time to get pricing for the next phase to test its financial feasibility.

Our Little Girl

We were blessed this year with the a new addition to the family.

Christmas Decorations

Ho Ho Ho

Living Room/Kitchen

Almost completed the living room opening/counter. It only needs to be stained to match the kitchen cabinets and coated with polyurethane.

Nursery

Baby Changing Station Phase 1/ Future Desk...

Nursery

A couple of schemes being tossed around for the baby changing table.

Nursery

Interior of the new window in the nursery with the 'box out' finished.

Nursery

This is a completed photo of the bumpout for the deeper nursery window that we found at the Re-Store. It was a brand new window that had been donated so I worked with its depth.

Nursery

The room is all cleaned up now and trimmed out, for now at least. We are still sketching out some ideas for some built in peices, other than that it just needs new outlets, switches, and a light fixture.

Nursery

One day at a time. This should be fairly nice once the window trim is in and the room cleaned up. There is of course always future projects, and I can thank Elisha for the paint color, although I did get to select the cream color.

It has been a constant cyclical redesign process until we both can give some form of approval to each new project.

Nursery

Here is the process over the last week for our little girls nursery construction project. I will upload the exterior modifications a little bit later.

Nursery

As we put the new window in its interesting to see the previous changes that have been made to the house by the many previous owners. The new window is mostly installed though now and the siding will go up soon so that we can turn our focus back to the interior.

Nursery

On the outside we are replacing the siding at the window with natural cedar lap siding.

Nursery

We decided to replace the window in the nursery before our little girl is born and found a lot of moisture in the wall from the old window. So in addition to putting in the window we picked up at the Restore we took down the interior to re-insulate the wall and replace the window.

Exterior

Here is some temporary work we are doing on the front of the house so it isnt such an eyesore for everyone. WE eventually plan on putting on a front porch - but eventually is never a gaurantee unfortunately.

Progress

There are still handfuls of projects around to do, and many that will not be completed or even started for some time, but at least we now have functional space.