Beam Town
Much work, busy busy, Mary says, pointing towards us and the house before turning to her door and heading inside. Even she seems to have tired of our repairs; it’s been months since she’s dropped by to inspect our progress and wax on to whoever she finds working there. We’re at the dramatic finish, though,...
Coming to a Head
It’s been quite a hectic past few weeks without too much to show for it all. Dennis has continued painting the rooms, Bill’s been working on matching the trim for the doorways that are without, Sal’s been working with him and Dustin to figure out logistics and installation of the redwood ceiling, and Shu’s been...
Twice Charmed
Shu is happily sorting through the debris of finished and broken trim in the basement, piecing them carefully back together in preparation for their return to the walls. He was elated to find the house bustling last week, with Sal and Greg putting up the WonderBoard upstairs and Eddie and Dennis downstairs continuing the floating...
Flushed
Exactly one year ago today, Shu and I officially became home owners. After picking up the keys and having a celebratory drink with the Stepanyans, we got some Chinese takeout, bundled up the two monsters and picnicked at the house. It was white, clean and quiet, hardly resembling its current state. As tired as we...
I Beam
We’re ‘going steel’, Sal informed us late last week, after conferring with a Nordic nonagenarian architectural engineer friend of his. As Sal was working on the joists, underpinning and all those terribly important structural elements that Shu and I don’t understand, he had come across an area that worried him greatly. After the previously mentioned...
The Good, the Bad, the Broken
It’s been another tumultuous week, with a flurry of progress, plan changes and overall activity. At the end of last week, we had FastHaul in to remove the piles of debris that had collected in the back since they came a month or two ago. Sal needed the yard cleared so he could build scaffolding,...
Roof-versal
By now, the roof should have been torn off and replaced. After Dustin’s visit and the whirlwind of changes that came with it – a frantic rejiggering of finances, a reluctant push back of our move in date and a flurry of roofing estimates, we settled on Collins Roofing (who also happen to be our...
Maelstrom
Last week brought a whirlwind of changes, though more strategic than physical. Shu’s good friend and master architect, Dustin Malstrom, of reMADE Designcame out to help us with some of the larger, future plans for the house. Aside from the numerous pre-move projects we’re currently undertaking, and the repair work we’ve yet to tackle (the...
