Busy Day

I got a call from our contractor this morning and he told us they weren't coming in today. They are arranging an inspection for tomorrow and since they finished everything they needed to get done for the inspection they don't need to come in. This is the first day of privacy that the Mister and I have had. This whole week we've had the TBG Construction crew and the J&C Cabinet crew working around the clock so it's always chaos. It hasn't been a lazy day for us though. I arranged a few people to come in and give us bids on our shower door and counters. Three frameless shower door bids, three different prices. More updates on that later. Please pray our inspection goes well. If it does, we can finally have power in this place. Working out of two outlets is not fun.

We will be painting the bathroom today so that we can get it done before we have people back in our house tomorrow. So much to get done!

Pyramid Flooring & Molding

We must have called at least 20 flooring places to look for our hardwood floor. We only need enough for the bedroom because we are leaving the original in the rest of the house. We could have gone the easy way out and installed a pre-finished floor but we want to match the floor to the rest of the house. Problem? We have inch and a half red oak. Upon the recommendetion of our floring guy we asked the guys at TBG to leave the back room prepared for a 3/4 inch floor. I came across this place that sells 3/4 x 1 1/2 Red Oak for a phenomenal price and they will have it ready tomorrow. Not in two weeks and not for an arm and a leg! The guys were awesome and great over the phone. They never treated me like a moron and when we stopped by in person they were so cool! Talk to Oscar JR, or Juan. For a moment we almost felt like we were back in Texas with those two guys. Then we looked out the window at the blazing fire. Nothing like a little ash on your car to remind you that you are still in Cali.



Pyramid Hardwood Flooring & Molding

2830 E. Foothilll Blvd.

Pasadena CA 91107

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Still at it.

A makeshift cabinet factory.

Cabinets still getting worked on.

My neighbor burning weed. S. What an idiot.

Sink is in

Fits like a glove.

Cabinets going up again

There was a slight mistake. But now it's fixed.

BATHROOM ALMOST DONE

The bathroom is coming along. We need to prime and paint it, but it's looking better than we had envisioned. Man it feels good. We also found out the tile guy left a wad of plastic and paper in the shower drain. I am sure we will find a way to get it out.

Against the Blue Wall

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Fan Me

This fan went in the living room and the bedroom!
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Light Fixtures Going In

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Shower Head

It's in! One step closer to a shower!
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Sink Cabinet

Will post pics later of cabinets when they are all done!
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Bottom Cabinets

These go under the cabinets that I posted below.
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Cabinets

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Moving on Up

Thanks to our friends we moved everything yesterday. All our belongings fit in one small u-haul and only one trip was necessary. Seeing all of those boxes in our house is overwhelming because they are sitting in the middle of a construction site. We have nowhere to put anything and no closets to hang clothes. But it feels good and it is a blessing, a true blessing to have this problem. I will sleep in a saw dust, paint fumed, unfinished house any day of the week so long as it's ours!
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Still moving

The place is unfinished. And we're still moving in. Sometimes you just
gotta suck it up and deal. I had two friends that helped me move.
Without them it would of been rough. Thanks m & s.

Accent Walls

We chose to do two accents walls. One is over the fireplace where our tv is going to go in and the other accent wall is the back of the kitchen. The color is a blue gray. The Mister put up pics earlier but the color read too dark. Here are some other pics that still don't do the color justice but may at least give you an idea. Will take better pictures when our windows aren't covered so you can see the true color because right now all the windows are covered up. Will also repost pictures once the floor covering is off and the place is cleaned up.

Bathroom Sinks

Our bathroom is coming together. Here are the sinks set up and running. They look beautiful and will look even better when the medicine cabinets go in.

Fire!

It's fire season in Cali and it wouldn't be normal in my LA experience NOT to have a fire in my backyard. Here is a pic of the smoke that we see from our street.

Painted all day

We have the guy from the dishnetwork coming out Sunday, so we had to
paint today. And we still need to move and pack more stuff. We love
the blue grey color. We call it Adonis blue because of my dads
neopolitan mastiff, they share the same color.

Fire. More to come

Shower Drain

Shower floor is not finished. But the drain is in! So worth the money!
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Bathroom Shower!

Shower is almost done!!!
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Aphids

We woke up this morning at our place in silverlake. And person from
the agricultural department was examing a trap for Asian citrus psyllid.