Living room floors!

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 that I couldn't keep all of the Greek gods straight, nope, turns out age has nothing to do with it.

However, I did like reading about Psyche and Eros last night.

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a second kitchen design

Taking into account comments, good ideas, and original plans I think we have a new contender. No, before we hadn't thought about where the microwave would go or the trashcan. :) Originally Sara had us putting the range on the chimney and running counters all around it. We couldn't figure out how in practise that would work and started dreaming about dual ovens and cooktops in counters and all sorts of things that are fancy and pretty, but not really needed for how we live now or plan to live later. This one gives Harris a gas cook top and me a convection oven. Dual fuel from bosch and we're both happy. It also creates two separate work stations on either side of the range and will fit around the door that will exist for the next year, but not forever. I like that this way we're not building out something that will have to be torn out in 12 months. I really really hate that. ...

Light rebuilding

Living Room Light, before we bought the house, hanging in the living room with the dropped ceiling, termite eaten floor, and paneled walls. You'll notice it is both electric and gas. Harris rebuilt the light fixture, cleaned the hell out of it, and hung it in the entryway to the house. In the process he flipped the direction of the bulbs so it is now an uplight fixture.

Budget

Dad was asking about the budget and how we're doing so far. Initially we had a total budget of about $350k for the house. As we negotiated the purchase price up and found more information about what the house needed that budget went to a maximum of about $415k. As of today, we anticipate spending around $400k or ~$111/sqft. As a comparison, Oakwood cost us $90/sqft and we sold for $106/sqft and the new owners are doing all kinds of neat stuff we dreamed about doing. So far we're under budget in a couple of areas, within budget but ahead of schedule in some (which can also be read as over budget...) and just going to be way over in a couple of key areas. Our original plan including making a temporary kitchen that we could live with, but would be massively overhauled within a year or two. Instead we decided to do it right the first time and enjoy it the entire time. To this end, our temp budget for cabs, appliances, and counters, was initally $5,600. However, that's g...

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