The good bad refrigerator
When the POs remodeled the kitchen, they used Lowes. I found this out thanks to another issue I’m currently chasing down. It seems the POs just…
Category: Interior
Let there be some light
One of the slightly annoying things about my gigantic office is that the only light sources when we moved in were the weak bulbs in…
…and the kitchen sink
A while back we had the old water softener replaced. The guys from City Water Filter also looked at the reverse-osmosis setup under our kitchen…
Pools, hot tubs, and other watery updates
I’ve been working on lining up contractors for a couple of projects and thus have no big news to share. Instead I have a few random…
The size of things
I managed to contract some sort of plague last week and spent much time in bed with a fever and congestion. While AS and his…
Scanning Complete
Last week I finished the small document scanning project I started two weeks earlier. The POs left behind a small pile of rolled-up plans, which…
10 Reasons to Never Buy from Lumber Liquidators
While I wrote an earlier post about getting hardwood flooring installed in two rooms, the saga took a few extra turns. To be brief, Lumber Liquidators…
More Flooring Tales
I did some research online as we have teak parquet flooring throughout half of the house. It is original to the house and was looking…
New Floors…almost
When we bought the house, the carpets in the north office (now my office) and the PO’s daughter’s bedroom (the purple room) were in awful…
Our house had an ouchy
One of the big projects here prior to moving in was redoing the flat roofs. We know that there were leaks in both the foyer…
Bad Pipes
One thing that came up during the house inspection during escrow was the state of the drain pipes servicing the kitchen and laundry. I ended…
Small Things and Big Blinds
Last week I took my giant ceramic Hello Kitty to the new house, and now it sits proudly in the butler’s pantry. I also discovered…
Original Listing Interior Photos
Not our furniture…