It’s been two years since the last time progress was made on the kitchen. We still didn’t have any cabinet doors, and recent developments have caused this to be a more pressing matter… We had focused on the lower cabinet doors the last time we made a push, and gotten to the point that they were …
Posting’s been a bit slow lately, but stuff’s slowly happening. A baby-related project came up in that our bathroom has a counter that works very well as a changing station, only it’s too low. I was getting a back ache, and it would also be nice if the surface was concave to make it harder …
The previous installments of the “2016 kitchen sprint” described the prep work needed before getting new counter tops. In parallel with getting this done, Kathy and I had started the discussion about what kind of counter top we wanted. Basically we considered three different alternatives: granite, “solid surface” which is a mixture of acrylic and minerals …
It’s now been almost exactly 2 years since the last post about the weatherstation I built and put up outside the house, so I thought it would be good to talk about how it’s worked out. In general, it’s worked well. However, a few things are showing their age: Over the past few months, the …
In the last post, I described how we’ve finally gotten some momentum back on the long-stalled kitchen refinish. In this post, we continue with painting. The existing kitchen paint, under the top layer, contains lead. This was the reason I wanted to get rid of it, at least on the surfaces where the paint was …
It’s been more than two years since the last post about the kitchen cabinets where I talked about how they were going to get reconditioned with Brushing Putty before being repainted… Well, you know how it goes. First there was the basement flood that lead to the basement unfinishing and drainage projects taking precedence, and once …
Back in 2013 when we knew what address we were moving to, I decided to make a street sign with our address and names on it. I ordered fancy wood from Inventables and was going to route it on the ShapeOko. However, the ShapeOko has not yet been unpacked and it’s been 2.5 years so finally …
Bringing you the next episode in the series “Patrik laying pipe”! In the last house post, I talked about the mysterious pool of water on the makai side of the house. Back in December, I wrote about the gutter replacement on the garage. Now it’s time for the (hopefully) final installation of major drainage hardware. …
I know there haven’t been a lot of updates recently, I kind of lost momentum on the writeups. However, it’s not that things haven’t been happening. The work on the house continues. It seems that most of the things we’ve done so far has to do with water. Maybe that’s just how it is living …
Another not-so-exciting improvement accomplished while my Dad was here was the replacement of the old gutters on the garage. They were of the semicylindrical, thin-metal kind and were sagging and leaking in several places. The metal itself was sufficiently corroded that replacing the whole thing seemed like the best option. (Not to mention that we …