Day 40

Nov 9th

Monday - start of week 9! Painters finished their work today - including all the door prep and painting. Walls are all done. The color came out a lot lighter than we had expected, but we're going with it for now and waiting to make a final judgement once we have the carpeting and floors in. Mark may be doing some painting in the future though, cause it's looking pretty light in there (which is not totally bad - opens up the room nicely).

I had NOTHING to do with the paint selection of Jake's room below. Karin let the kids go with there own color selection and this is what he went with (Clearwater Blue). It is a VERY blue room. We're going to have to load it with a lot of darker curtains, bedspread, etc. Karin's actually with the kids right now buying some dark blue Star Wars bedding. :-)

Jazzy's selection was this nice light purple.

Looking down the hallway. The final sun tunnel installs will happen this week, so hopefully we'll see some light down there soon.

Day 39 - End of Week 8

Painters started today and will work throughout the weekend. Too much paint smoke in the air to take pictures. They prepped the house all day today and part of Saturday.

Day 38

Nov 5th

Pantry doors and kitchen entrance completed with trim.

Master shower prepped for tile.

Drywalled in the front of the master tub - faucet piping completed.


Stucco work started today! 1st round.

Day 37

Worked late this day - no pictures.

Day 36

Nov 3rd

The new kitchen pantry doors and kitchen/garage door are being installed.

Master closet door and entrance to master bedroom. We are REALLY happy with our door selections!

Day 35

Nov 2nd

Monday - they finished wrapping up the new electrical panel in prep for stucco.

Note the periscope PG&E installed on the top of the house. This is what took them weeks to get scheduled - they needed to update electrical feed to raise it farther above the house.

The cabinets have been installed in the kids bathroom - unfortunately there is no light available to take pictures.

A lighter picture of the kids bathroom cabinets.

The cabinets in the master bath. Unfortunately the angle in the house resulted in a mismatch of cabinetry (which we knew). Of course, my side will be the smaller vanity on the right.

Shot from inside the shower.

Day 34 - End of Week 7

Oct 30th

End of week 7! This images were actually taken on Saturday (Halloween).

The tile has arrived! Boxes and boxes of tile!

Jazzy and Jake are checking out the texture work.

Note the tree on the right of the driveway is not GONE! I had a guy give me a quote on Friday. Confirmed that we wanted to work with him and asked for a date that he could come out to remove the tree. He said he'd get back to me on Monday - however, we got a call from him on Saturday (literally 2 hours after taking the above pictures) saying that he "did the job". I was worried that he actually did the wrong house, as we just left there a few hours earlier, but I ran over to the house and sure enough - it was gone! Within a day - how cool is that! We took out the tree as we plan on extending the driveway with pavers, to allow for more parking.

Day 33

Oct 29th

After several weeks of dealing with PG&E they finally showed up to shut down the power so our electrician could install are new 200Amp panel (upgrading from 100Amp). Since there was no power at the house while this work was being done, they couldn't do anything on the inside, so the only thing happening today was the electrical box.

Day 32

Oct 28

Not much going on this week, but I thought I'd take a picture of our lovely - soon to be removed - driveway. Talk about screwed up! We're going to be getting rid of this puppy. Also note the tree in the upper right by the port-o-potty - that tree will shortly be gone as well.