Turning 30

Not me, as I’m way past that, but this week I rolled over 30,000 miles on the motorcycle. Yahoo! It’s kind of a big milestone for a bike. Most bikes are ridden for a couple thousand miles and then thrown away. I’ve made it a point to ride as regularly as I can.
But: I don’t [...]

Close to Finished…

After finishing the bar and the closet, we are now finished with two more mini-projects. I say “mini” because the work that we did was not remodeling work, but shopping & designing.
The first project that took us a long time to complete was finding an entertainment center. It took us longer than one [...]

Yet Another Project Completed… Almost…

So, now that we’ve done the bar, we started working on the master closet. There are two, actually. One “His” and one “Hers”. We’re re-doing the “Hers” closet. We painted all but one wall a light tan and the one wall a pale blue. After that, we put up an entirely new closet system using [...]

End Results [With Pictures!]

I promised pictures and now you have them! Introducing our kitchen bar before renovation. Notice the large gray overhang. It was so cumbersome and we kept running into it. It also took up a couple of feet of the sitting room next to the kitchen.

Next, you’ll see the work in progress:

So we ripped the [...]

Painting Madness

We are coming to the end of our home remodeling projects… Note I said “projects” – yes, we started another one before finishing the first. We ripped out Laura’s closet and have spackled and primed the closet. Next, we will paint it and hang up new custom shelving.
As for the bar area, I’ve decided I’m [...]