The Adventures of
David
Elizabeth
and Leif

I’m still working on the upgrade to this site … some older images might be missing, and I know the images are wider than the column, causing the text at the right to go over the images. I’m working on it. In the meantime, I decided to play. I added a plugin called Flickr Post Bar that allows you to get a row of images below your rich text editor and click them to make them appear in the post. It’s pretty good. Keen even.

Here’s a view of our bathtub before and after it was enameled.

OK, you probably would prefer to receive Elizabeth’s entries (see below) but I’m so excited to see real progress going on I’ll publish a few more photos.

Yesterday, the kitchen was being painted …

… the first of the cabinets hung …

… and the floor being tiled.

Meanwhile, in the bathroom, the sink was sitting on its vanity and the toilet was hooked up and working nicely.

When last I updated you about our renovation, the baby room had been primed. Here’s Elizabeth admiring a fresh coat of paint a couple days ago.

Ahh, she really likes the color she picked for the master bedroom too!

A couple days ago, the bathroom …

… had just received tile on the left wall!

Yesterday, they were using the tub to clean the paint rollers …

… the tub which today has a faucet and showerhead.

And the back wall now has the first coat of paint and a brand new toilet.

The kitchen plumbing was being installed the last few days …

… today the plumbing and the wall were finished.

Elizabeth admiring the kitchen and the dining room wall …

Meanwhile, in the master bedroom, the trim was being painted while Yves assembled the Ikea cabinets…

… and put in the baby room until he can install them in the kitchen …

It’s exciting to see the progress. But it’s also one of the most difficult and stressful times I’ve ever had. I’ve got a major project at work that’s due on 11/1. Elizabeth’s got a major project brewing that’s due 11/2. We want to move into our apartment a week from tomorrow. Three days between now and then, I will be in Florida in my annual training. Until then, I have to study and go into the office. Then, when I get back from training, I have 1 day until our projected move date. I’d like to slip the move date a few days, but I want to give E as much time as possible to nest before the baby comes. So … all I can say is, “Lord have mercy!” I don’t see how it’s all going to get done.

But that doesn’t take away from the pleasure of watching our vision for our apartment come true!

In the kitchen, our builder is putting up a new wall about 2 inches in from the original one. This is because the existing wall is cinderblock and has a lot of pluming in it. It would be really hard to dig out the existing wall to reroute the pluming, so Yves will just do it inside the new wall. This also makes it a lot more convenient for the electrician. Here’s the framing with the wiring done from a few days ago.

Today they have most of the kitchen drywall up.

Our new circuit breaker panel is roughed-in.

As are the many places where the walls were opened up to run conduit.

A few days ago, Yves asked me to come into the bathroom. He showed me where they had pulled up some of the old floor to do plumbing work. The joists were non-existent and/or rotten. He told me to stand by the tub. Then he went and stood by the door and the whole floor rocked. It was an old slab of cement poured in with tile on top. Here are the parts Yves broke up to remove.

He then put down new floor joists and a new floor of plywood and wet-board.

(No, we’re not going to keep the toilet in the bath tub.)

Today, I went back and Yves was finishing the tiling.

No grout yet…

Finally, a coat of primer has been added to the baby’s room.

Anybody want a vintage air conditioner?