March 15th, 2012

Baby List!

The pile keeps growing.

We’ve got a whole passel of things that we need to get done, with a tentative deadline of July 23rd. Totally abandoning the “official list“, there a much more urgent roster of items that really needs to be done before we’re graced with Baby Smannon. Like to hear it? Here it go:

  • Finish electricity in the garage
  • Tear out house carpeting (gross and really old)
  • Build a wall in the living room to close off the basement from the upstairs of the house
  • Install wood floors
  • Replace interior doors
  • Insulate outer wall of basement
  • Repair or replace basement exterior door
  • Insulate floor of kitchen and bathroom
  • Install smoke alarms
  • Paint/decorate nursery

We also have a list of “things that would be nice to finish but aren’t as urgent”:

  • Rebuild basement stairs
  • Paint/prettify basement stairs
  • Install ceiling fan in living room
  • Paint office

There are a few items we want to buy, too, like a new dishwasher, but those will probably be at the mercy of the projects that actually need to be done ASAP. Meanwhile, we recently bought all of the flooring (goodbye, tax refund!) as well as a new couch and chaise lounge, which Kevin is modeling above, and which will probably become my nest during my maternity leave.

AAAAANNNNNNNDDD, GO!

January 12th, 2012

Project Smannon

Has it really been another six months since the last time I updated? I guess it almost has! Sorry about that. Rest assured that the last six months has pretty much been all garage, all the time. And man, is it impressive! Enormous, hand-built, and now electrified and insulated. I’ll be sure to update about its status ASAP.

That’s not what I want to tell you about this time, though. See, we’ve embarked on another household project:

This one will take a few more months to complete, and a few other projects are going to have to happen concurrently in preparation for the final reveal, but in the meantime, we’re going to try to spend as much time enjoying ourselves as possible.

XO

July 21st, 2011

Garage! (in pictures)

We totally should have set up a camera for time-lapse footage. Oh well.

Yard

Before

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Sheathing is almost done!

Aaaaaand, that brings us roughly up to speed!