2nd story bath & Laundry updates

The base cabinets for the upstairs bathroom were set:


Laundry cabinets, countertop, and sink:

More kitchen updates

Kitchen countertops and sink installed.



Undercabinet puck lighting installed:

Return to H.E.L.L.

(that's Hoosier Elevated Ladder Lift for you common folk.)

As if the previous post to install that ceiling fan weren't enough, we tackled the task of the foyer light 20 feet up. This one was a bit harder because we didn't have a 6' downrod but our ingenious system did not disappoint (patent pending.)

Buried Gas Tank

I wasn't able to make it home in time to catch them in the action of installing the gas tank but the cap and regulator are visible.

Master bath vanity shells

Our his & hers vanities were also set in the master bath.

Henry Ford would be proud

With all of the baseboard and doors being painted, the garage area resembled an assembly line of sorts rather than a space to store vehicles.

Kitchen Cabinets

What a pleasant surprise to arrive at the house and find the base and wall cabinets hung in the kitchen. The desk area cabinets were stacked in the corner and the island was still "floating" on the floor.





The laundry cabinets weren't installed, but appeared to be next!

Herro, have you seen godzirra?

Ok, it's not Godzilla, but it IS green: The guest bathroom. My dad and I managed to assemble the vanity without much help from instructions. Not because we're such manly men that we didn't need them, but because the single piece of instruction it came with was essentially worthless. If it was 2-ply it would have been twice as useful. It did provide us with some humor though because it was written in Engrish. I'll have to see if it's still around to provide a few quotes.

Some completed baseboard trim and more to put up.

How to install a ceiling fan on a 20' ceiling

...using a 12' stepladder. Doesn't seem very feasible when you do the math does it? Neither one of us were 8' tall so we had to improvise. Here was the first plan of attack: attach a 25' aluminum extension ladder to the face of the 12' stepladder.

I "anchored" the step ladder while Jeff climbed up to the ceiling. In theory this worked until Jeff reached up to grab the wire. At this point, the stepladder decided to lift itself up about 2 feet in the air (while still being attached to the extension ladder) which prompted a string of expletives in stereo. We managed to get back down our respective ladders without crashing through any windows.

We came up with Plan B: sawhorses. Seriously, we weren't drinking; yet.


The above contraption actually worked well and was pretty stable.


Attaching the motor and the 6' downrod was the hardest part.

...and finally the finished product. Lovely.

Flooring

We started off with marble silk tile in the master bedroom.


Then went with a dark slate/greenish tile in the laundry room.

Hand scraped brazilian walnut in the master bedroom.

And Bruce oak hardwood for the rest of the main floor.