Finishing the Kitchen Chairs
Continuing from a post waaaay back at the start of this year… Once the metal kitchen chairs were disassembled, it was time to obtain new…
Category: Projects
Studio Windows In and Stucco Done!
The new windows for the studio building finally arrived and were installed in early November of last year. Once they were in place, a team…
Purgatory Printing
One of the projects finally completed but not written about (until now) is the redecoration of the guest bedroom. Yesterday I finally “finished” the room…
More Kitchen Chairs
While rebuilding the Great Wall last year, Agent Smith’s father took some time to refinish the kitchen table and chairs. In September of this year,…
Finishing Touches in the North Hallway
Once the north hallway was painted and everything put back in place, I worked with a consultant from Blinds.com to find a solution to screen…
Painted Hallway and Bath
After just a few days the painters were done, and I spent a day putting things back together–books on the bookcases, rocks in the china…
Impromptu Painting
While we waited and waited for the new Studio windows to be manufactured and shipped out, I used the down time to have the same…
Patching and Studio Speaker Removal
While waiting on the new windows to replace the pseudo-windows the Previous Owners jammed into place because they were either too cheap to have the…
Studio Window and Door Kvetching
Who actually needs four separate doors into a building that is basically just two rooms? Well, apparently the POs did. Between building the studio in 1999…
Studio With New Flooring
Once the prep work was complete, it was time to put in some tile–lots and lots of tile. Once the tiles were in place, the…
Studio Flooring Prep
Once everything was out of the studio and the materials for the new floors arrived, it was time to get to work. 1. First the…
Studio Prep
We wrote a while back about a flood in the studio building, and this past summer we started work not only repairing the damage, but…
Summer Clean Up, Part 2
While we were busy with the boards, Agent Smith used Bambi to excavate debris buried beneath wood chips and other debris. While the wood chips…
Summer Clean Up, Part 1
We spent a few weekends this summer doing yet more clean up–would you believe there was even more random garbage scattered about by the previous…
Steeling Ourselves, Part 3 of 3
The new steel ladders turned out better than we anticipated. Here are some more pictures of them. As you can see they go up and over…
Steeling Ourselves, Part 2 of 3
It took the crew from F&F Steel three days to get the ladders installed. They started off by getting the new ladder for the great room…
Steeling Ourselves, Part 1 of 3
One of the more odd bits about the house is that two cubes are part of the residence: the great room, which measures approximately 26’x26’x22′;…
How do you get a flood on a mountain?
When we were having the pool resurfaced and discovered the blocked bottom drain, we tried to sort out the purpose of the various taps in…
Spoils of Purgatory
When we had the driveway repaved last winter, we decided to retain the rubble from the old driveway (commonly referred to as spoils). We ended…
Our New Pad!
When we purchased Purgatory there was a really old and unsafe dog kennel on the property. One of the very first projects Agent Smith and…
Finishing Pool Touches
Because of delays we had to wait a day for water trucks to fill the pool. We decided at the start of the project to not…
Pool Revamp: Plumbing and Prep
Once the pool surface was stripped, Adams began the prep work. To bring the pool up to code, we had to have the bottom drain split…
Pool Revamp: Drain and Strip
In March we began work on the pool resurfacing/remodel project. We knew when we purchased the house that the plaster would soon need work, so…
Purgatory Contest: And the Winner Is…
After receiving a dozen or so submissions for the first-ever contest at Purgatory, we are pleased to announce that a winner has been determined! First…
Interior Walls (The Bird Space): Finishing Touches
To give the alcove a better sense of space, I framed the archway by painting two trees. After painting the trunks and branches, I then…
Interior Walls: Painting
1. Once the trim was masked and drop cloths laid, it was time to get rolling with the paint. Since there were only two walls…
Interior Walls: Prep Work
In addition to the big exterior projects, we’ve managed to complete some interesting interior work. In January I set about painting the boys’ space in…
The Tale of the Driveway Repaving, Part 3 of 3
In mid-February we were able to start putting down asphalt finally. The crew started in the courtyard and had it done quite quickly. By noon that…
The Tale of the Driveway Repaving, Part 2 of 3
So there we were, without water and with a dirt driveway. The crew returned with an excavator the next day and got busy. They dug…
The Tale of the Driveway Repaving, Part 1 of 3
After the Great Wall was completed, we turned our attention to the driveway. Having multiple large trucks running down it had pretty much trashed it.…
The Wall Saga: Addendum
After spending over two months detailing all the work that was put in to rebuilding our large retaining wall, a few remaining items are worth…
The Wall Saga: Finishing Touches
On November 17, 2015, the finishing touches were put on the replacement retaining wall. This included moving earth to the top of the wall to…