Friday, August 29, 2008

Making major progress

LAUNDRY ROOM PAINTED AND FLOORED
DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM PAINTED, VANITY, TOILET AND SHOWER IN
DOWNSTAIRS BATH SHOWER AND VANITY
KTICHEN, ALL APPLIANCES IN, MY DAD IS PUTTING IN LIGHTING. FLOORING AND PAINT ARE DONE TOO!
CLOSE UP OF FRIDGE AND PAINT
CLOSE UP OF NEW FIBER FLOORS
NEW CABINETS AND PAINT
THIS IS THE KITCHEN PAINT COLOR, ONLY ITS MORE LIGHT GOLD IN REAL LIFE
BOYS BATHROOM WITH NEW WHITE TOILET, AND TUB. NEW VANITY AND FIBER FLOORS. THE TILE STILL LOOKS MIGHTY PINK, I'M HOPING WHEN THE WALLS ARE PAINTED IT WILL LOOK LESS WEIRD. I READ ABOUT PRIMING PAINT FOR TILES BUT I KNOW MY MOM WOULD NEVER LET ME PAINT THE TILES A MORE NEUTRAL COLOR BECAUSE THEY ARE ANTIQUES OR SOME SHIT. ISN'T THEIR FIBER FLOOR NEATO?
BRAND NEW MASTER SHOWER WITH NEW SHELVES ON THE SIDE
NEW VANITY, AND PAINTED WALLS
MASTER BATH FLOORING
MORE OF THE SHOWER AND SHELVES, I AM PAINTING THE SHELVES TO MATCH THE VANITY
ALL THE JUNK THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED, MORE LIGHTING, AND TOWEL RACKS, TOILET PAPER THINGS ECT.
MAIN HOUSE COLOR.
At this point all that is left to do is paint the main house walls and sand and stain the floors. We can not paint or sand until after the party because the floors take 4-5 days. We have to paint after the floors because sanding kicks up a ton of dust meaning I would have to wash the walls twice.

I want to take a minute to talk about my dad. Watching all this stuff has made me think he's a damn genius. He can wire lights, and do plumbing, and floors and paint and it blows me away. However yesterday when the alarm people came I really understood how much different he thinks then the rest of the world. The alarm guy was telling me that because of wires they had to locate key pads, sirens, and such in really wonky stupid ass places. I explicitly said NO. I may be an idiot girl but even I knew there is more then one way to skin a cat. This asshole alarm guy actually had the nerve to argue with me. Finally my dad sensing my frustration stepped in. My dad who spends his days running thermostat and zoning wires in houses. Who knows that there is almost always a way to please the customer finally showed the guy like THREE different ways to accomplish what I want. At one point one of the guys flat out told me it was impossible to access the back side of a certain wall and my dad stood there completely dumbfounded because the backside of the wall was the goddamn garage wall. I don't know how much more accessible it could be. Or later when I said I didn't want a fucking alarm siren located in my living room. I told them I wanted it in this little cubby near the kitchen. They were adamant that it COULD NOT BE DONE. I stared at it for a second and said, "umm isn't there a closet right behind it, and below that isn't it crawl space?" Can't you just run the wires like that. The guy started getting mad at me kind of telling me he just couldn't wire it that way. Again, my dad senses that I am about 14 seconds from going atomic bitch on these guys and walks over and shows them THREE MORE ways to make my wish happen. They actually tried to argue with him not realizing, he has run all the duct work and thermostat wires int hat house, obviously he knows every inch of that place. I walked away from that install visibly upset. What bothered me most is that in the end, it seemed the alarm guys didn't want to do any more work then necessary. Total this alarm has cost me close to $3,700.00. For that much money I honestly think they could have been a little nicer, a little more willing, and a little less lazy about shit. I'm very happy my dad was there. Had he not been I think those guys would have taken advantage of me being just a young girl and forced me to have things in a way I wouldn't have been happy.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Today's progress

Brandon eating outside on the patio

Playing in his new tree fort

I call this one Studly plumbers of Reno

Peeling up the second layer of old linoleum

How many men does it take to pull up a floor

Putting in our new guest shower

Look Codi this is your new house

Yeah whatever dad I just want to chew on your screwdriver

My cousin Benny installing my shiny new GIANT water heater

The shower

This would be the carpet man. He think's he's pretty rad.

WE ALMOST HAVE CARPET

I was working very hard

The beginning of the new shelving unit
Building my new island

One of the builders showing me his big umm....tape measurer

Torching shit

My shiny new butcher block island

New cabinets almost finished


WE HAVE CARPET IN THE MAN ROOM

And glorious walls in the bathroom

Walls wonderful walls

THE BEER PONG TABLE!!!

Front of my pretty island

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Movin and a shakin

LOOK WE HAVE TOILETS. THERE IS A SHOWER BEHIND THEM

THE DISHWASHER IS "IN" THE HOUSE

NEW MASTER SHOWER PAN

PRETTY NEW LIGHTING FOR THE DINING ROOM

AHEM. MY FATHER AND HUSBAND WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT THEY TOTALLY REALIZED THE KITCHEN HOOD WAS INSTALLED TO BLOCK THE DOOR. THEY ONLY LEFT IT THAT WAY TO SEE IF WE WOULD ALL NOTICE. THEY HAVE SINCE REMOVED IT AND BOUGHT A NEW ONE

MY DAD AND BRANDON RIPPING UP THE SECOND LAYER OF OLD LINOLEUM

SHINY NEW SINK ON SHINY NEW COUNTERS

EXTRA SHINY NEW CONVECTION OVEN

MY PRETTY NEW FIVE BURNER GAS RANGE. OOOO BABY

LOOK LOOK THERE IS HALF A WALL IN THE DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM NOW. AND ALSO..PLUMBING!!!!!

STILL REMOVING FLOORS

BRAND NEW FART FAN LIGHT COMBOS (FART FAN IS A TECHNICAL TERM)

MASTER SHOWER RELOCATED TO NEW WALL

NICELY GROOMED BACK YARD!

I BEGING PACKING AND MOVING TOMORROW. WE HOPE TO BE FULLY MOVED IN BY NEXT FRIDAY IN TIME FOR THE HUGE PARTY ON THE 30TH. IF YOU KNOW ME IN REAL LIFE, I AM HAVING A MOVING PARTY ALL WEEK. YOUR ALL INVITED. I WILL PAY YOU WITH PIZZA AND BEER!

TOMORROW THE PLUMBERS PLAN TO FINISH ALL THE DRAINS AND THE FLOOR GUY WILL INSTALL CARPET. SATURDAY MY DAD AND HUSBAND WILL BE SANDING THE HARDWOOD PREPPING IT FOR VARNISH AND STAIN AND WHAT EVER OTHER SHIT YOU PUT ON HARD WOOD. WE HOPE TO HAVE NEW KITCHEN FLOORS AND BATHROOM FLOORS THIS WEEK!