So Billie do you have your laptop in your lap while you are typing away, half stretched out? :thumbsup:
a "chilly" (yeah, compared to what...) 33 degrees this morning going up to 48. At least full sun, so this afternoon, right after lunch when the sun is beating down on the back deck, and it gets nice and toasty back there, I have about ten pieces of floor molding to apply a poly top coat to, so the carpenters can get it installed. It would be days before the painter comes back so I said I'd do it, not like that's real strenuous...
I have two sets of carpenters working on the house; one doing the outside work and one doing the inside work. The inside guys are building the shelves in my walk in closet. The lumber delivered was Chinese birch plywood. The outer layer was skinny paper thin. Where's the US plywood?
Next time I put that in the spec. I'm learning... All this shelving wood is going to get painted so it's not overly relevant how thick the wear surface is but the "nice" side of this plywood was laughably thin. The edge was literally fluttering in the breeze. These carpenters, all of them now actually, are real fanatics. They say right up front they work for me, not the GC even though they get paid by him, and they want lots of time talking over my expectations, they have 100% tarped my lawn so not one flake of construction debris gets on it, and frankly I think I finally got the right guys working here. So I am cautiously optimistic. Yeah RS, let's bold
cautiously...
to balance out things, which is always good, because even though I have a real sense of humor, it sure has been worn thin lately..., at least my new bathroom is really looking cool. I think I got the colors right too, which I didn't do in the kitchen and had to send the backsplash tile back and get a different color. After that debacle, I was really nervous about the tile color in the bathroom but the marble and the tile went down, I think it works. Feels like I'm going into a fancy hotel bathroom. Bathrooms and kitchens are where the money needs to go for resale so I have that firmly in mind. Once I replace the windows, siding and roof of course. The latter too will happen in the next five years. And that should conclude fun and games in my own little moneypit. But then it will be done, and it will feel new, and this is what I've worked all my life for. No Porsches for me; I'll have a nice "throne"... The whole wall in front of the shower, and the shower door, will be glass,btw, so I'm hoping the "view" will not be blocked. Some of these design issues score me slightly above clueless.
I keep getting asked questions and typically I respond, "I have no idea, let me think about it." and I do...
Just keeping my eye on the prize when all these people finally get out of my home, I can clean it up finally and just sit in my recliner like Wingspread and snooze by the fire.
