Upstairs Kitchen

Sky Light

Hello, world. Apparently, the roof was so poorly constructed in the kitchen that it had to be ripped out entirely. It's supposed to rain on Thursday. Pat and his boys will be able to finish the kitchen in one day, but they can't come back until this weekend. Meanwhile, almost all of the other framing is entirely done. It looks amazing. Those windows from our neighbor's house are unfortunate. A rather unpermitted add-on, otherwise we could make the ceiling match the height of the rest of the house. Bummer. Expanding the width of the kitchen by about 2 feet has made a huge difference though. 

The plumber is making amazing progress upstairs. We're just waiting for the valves to arrive so that he can finish the showers. He'll be here the rest of the week working upstairs. He'll also spend a day downstairs doing the finishing work on the studio. 

Wackadoodle Kitchen

Josh and Elder contemplate our crazy kitchen. Elder repaired the floor in the kitchen today. The tile guy grouted the studio bathroom. Holy crap does the tile look better with grout! Cesar is back tomorrow to finish prepping and sanding. I hope he can start priming the studio this weekend. 

Framing

I know I promised more demo shots, but this is what I got for ya for now. It's the view from the front door looking in. Pretty crazy, huh? The amazing framing team is making incredible progress. Luckily, they still can't get back to their other job site, so we've been lucky enough to have them for the last three days. They moved through the original portion of the house pretty quickly. Where we've run into more difficulty is in the horrendous add-ons that were done of the years. The lack of an exterior wall in the kitchen is one, the sloping floor being another and then in the bedroom we discovered that when they added on a portion, they neglected to make the floor level with the rest of the room. It's about an inch lower, so they're dealing with that. They're also adding in a lot more supportive beams. These framing guys are incredible. Pat has some for foresight about everything. He knows to build a door opening two inches over to make sure that you can get a full casing on either side when you go to do the molding later. Every little possible detail he can think of, he does.

Cesar is almost done prepping the downstairs to paint. I'm hoping he can prime the whole studio tomorrow. The tile guys finished laying all the tile yesterday and will be back tomorrow to grout. 

We just have to deal with the city now in getting a few final sign-offs for some structural things downstairs. Some things that a contractor who was working for us briefly 1.5 years ago now managed to f up. We'll get it all sorted out, I'm sure. Just another hurdle for now. 

Josh's Favorite Things

Josh put the finishing touching on the framing this weekend. Here he is with two of his favorite tools (ie toys): the nailer and the skillsaw. The nailer freaks me out. It's like a relic from the Mad Max set. I tried it once, but that was enough for me. Otherwise, I was very focused on my supervisor duties. So was Lucy, of course. All I can think about is that scene from Lethal Weapon 2 where the guy gets killed with the nail gun. When you try one out, you fully appreciate what a gnarly death that would be. At least it would be quick. (By the way, moms, it wasn't an accidental death by nail gun in the movie. It was very intentional, so nothing is going to happen to Josh with normal usage.)

The electrician is back at work today. I'm hoping he'll be done in a few days so that we can get it inspected next week. Hello, progress, my old friend.