Once upon a time our bathroom floor had these small black and white tiles. I wonder if that was before or after the owners decided to go with a CEMENT subfloor.

Attic window prior to window seat installation and carpet. Windows by Windowpros out of Allentown. Window seat by contractor found on Servicemagic.com. Carpet by Royers Carpet out of Boyertown.

An herb garden, with parsley, rosemary, lavender, dill, thyme, oregano, and basil.

Most of the smaller stones have been removed from the wall, leaving a few very large stones. I haven't been able to pry them out but they are sandstone and many of the other smaller stones have broken already. I figure a few smacks with a sledgehammer will be able to break this down to size.

Don and Patricia can work together well as long as I am not in the picture--no pun intended. They are installing crown moulding into her bedroom.

Standing in what will be our kitchen...in April or May.

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kitchen project summer o6 - after old kitchen has been fully gutted out; we have put up the drywall at this stage and were in the process of mudding!

Finally time to add color

Aaron is an old friend from college. We haven't seen each other in almost 5 years. He was in Sedro Wooley for a training course, we decided to meet up and he volunteered to come help build a shed. What a guy!

Ian finally got a chance to hang our fancy light up in the foyer as well as a mirror and a coat rack thing I had. All that's left are The Little Prince sketches.

I got a (long) lesson on spackling plaster walls and repairing cracks...

Helpful Hint: This takes MUCH longer that spackling little holes in drywall. Surprise!

Day 1

before the new flooring

After removing one of the old studs.

"Accent" wall. I think the accent they were going for is "tacky."

The heaters will be hung in a few days ago we need to paint the walls behind where they are going. Priming today. Painting tomorrow.

2x4's were added around the fireplace for the addition of the mantel later.

Pantry cabinets with primer

The top two sets of shims are probably the most important. By pushing the jambs the appropriate amount on each side at the very top, you can make sure the hinge side hangs straight down against the frame. Then you nail from top to bottom on the hinge side, putting shims in any time that there's a gap in between the jamb and the frame. The objective is to keep it as perfectly straight up and down as possible. If you do this wrong, your door will never swing right or sit in the opening nice and squarely.

Trim won't go up until the flooring is in. South door painted.

4/5 of the fence has received a coat of stain (at left). Of course when I have the time to finish the project, that's when the sky wants badly to rain.

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Before: Basement area to be created into hallway

glueless laminate- not as easy as it sounds!

I built the dressers, Costas built the crib. Leksvek from IKEA, the bassinet is from Pottery Barn kids.

Before the new flooring