Adventures at The Bunny Manse

You could smell the poly from the sidewalk...    

 Floor work starts today. They will sand, trowel fill, and patch today, tomorrow, and Friday. Here are the floors before they start working on them. This is the recognized transformation moment. When the house goes from construction site to home in a matter of days.  

 Pocket door removed so that Matt can repair the termite damage at the bottom. When I saw it on the porch at lunch, I immediately started caressing it saying, wow, that's a beautiful door. Forgot for a moment that it will soon effortlessly slide between my living and dining room.   New oak flooring laid in living room, getting all accustomed to the humidity in the house and expanding before it's sanded and polyed.   Upstairs...we continue to pull nails. The hallway remains, then we pull up the downstairs hallway floor and see what lies beneath the linoleum.   HVAC install is Monday.

Harris finished screwing in the subfloor last night around 3am. This morning at 8am the crew from Accent arrived to lay the new oak floor for the living room. There is a slight change in elevation over the room and in total is off square by 1/4 of an inch. (163 inches vs 163.25 inches) so they are sanding and building up the transition somehow. I kind of like having professionals who know what they are doing working on the house. You can present a slight problem and not only have they seen it before, they have ways to fix it and make it beautiful. Also, Genia cracks me up in the best ways. saying of someone else "Only one I know who can do $4k worth of damage to something worth $3k" Harris slept from 7pm to midnight last night, woke up, ordered a pizza, then started working on the floor. I woke up around 1:30 and got back to sleep around 5. I'm reading myths of the ancients on project gutenberg which helps. I thought it was my inability to care as a high schooler th...

This will be the girls room. Here you see how the cracks have been opened and the plaster secured to the studs and then the same wall thathas then had the base coat applied. The opposite wall picture is a few hours after the top coat has been applied. It will continue to lighten over the coming days to a violet color.    These are the suite bedroom across from the girls room.     . Some shots of the third bedroom being prepped and Harris working on the living room floor.  

  Hey look, there's Harris pulling up the living room floor!      We decided to admit that we need a new floor in the living room. We didn't have enough to salvage and patch in the oak from the dining room and make it not look stupid. As Harris pulled it out, it became clear this is a good decision. The space behind him and to the left it totally rotten - oak, pine, and subfloor. Had we patched in, we would have had a horribly unstable floor.        We are trying to re-home the pine and oak to neighbors who need wood for patch work. Harris then has to lay plywood for the subfloor before Genia at Accent can come back and lay a new oak floor that will match the dining room and transition nicely to the entry/hallway.  

Going to meet with Robert from Accent Floors today at 11:30 to go over the floors! What I thought last night was a lingering and incredibly powerful 2nd coat was indeed the final coat applied in the afternoon yesterday. I kind of love contractors who finish early and yet accomplish the job fully.

  We're cleaning out the storage unit so that currently our stuff is in our apartment, in long term storage, or is at the house. Soon, it will be with us or long term storage.   Madeline's room will be used to store things from the apartment, once we're moving things up there. Bill pulled many nails and swept up in here. Now begins the battle against dust.             this is the bedroom across the hall from Madeline's room. Storage unit is being emptied into this room right now. Surprisingly less in the storage unit than we thought.         Here's our kitchen!         That will soon enough live here. Yes, I know, need to touch up some paint there...         And another gratuitous floor shot!             This will be our bedroom when we move into the house. Madeline calls it th...