Kitchen Update 4: Functioning Again!!

It’s official – we have a functioning kitchen!

Kitchen Update 3.5: It's getting pretty cold

We're experimenting with keeping the heat set SUPER low -- I won't even say how low, just assume 5 degrees colder than what you would think is unbearably cold -- and spending most of our time in the kitchen/living with the fireplace cheerily burning away. So far, so good.

Kitchen Update 3

We are currently just sitting on the kitchen, waiting for the counters, installation of which is scheduled for the 20th. But since Kitchen Update 1...

Kitchen Update 2: Turn up the Heat

Part of kitchen renovation involved getting a new source of heat for the space. Our reasons for splurging on a gas fireplace are threefold:

Kitchen Update 1

I can't believe it, but it's been 1 month since we demo-ed out the kitchen/living room wall.

Kitchen Appliances

We bought 'em last night from Lowe's.

Wall a'coming DOWN

As planned, the wall between the living room and kitchen came down this weekend.

My washer/dryer kitchen counters

you should try them out sometime.

Chimney Room

Also no longer has a chimney!

Blue Room update

The blue room is no longer blue.

Second floor floors floors floors

We've really been chugging along on the second floor (hallway, small bedroom) and this weekend we tackled the floors. We'd been planning on painting all the pine flooring on the second floor white (as in the master bedroom), but since the walls are all white, we decided white floors would be overkill, verging on clinical. So, staining and varnishing it was.

The Front Entrance

is an eyesore. The pathetic garden aside, the front columns are peeling, the sidelights are cracked and painted over, the lights don't work, and there is a rusty mark of where there used to be a second mailbox (for the second unit this house used to have).

We moved

Upstairs, officially!

Second Floor Update 2

Here is the current state of our second floor..

Okazaki, Japan

Another post! Keep 'em coming!
So I did a very spontaneous trip to my mom's hometown, Okazaki, Japan in mid May.

Floor painted white

Ayumi went to Japan recently for a 12-day visit with her mom (Hi, Seiko!). While she was away – and after I was bored of working, drinking alone, and watching sports – I decided to paint our bedroom floors white. Some sample pictures of white floors look pretty sharp at this website. Plus the article was entitled, "Are You Gutsy Enough to Paint Your Floors White?" so then I basically had no choice but to do it. (Umm.. this might have actually all been Ayumi's idea.)  

Franconia Ridge day hike

Our goal this summer (besides finishing our house, HAH) is to explore New Hampshire more than we've been doing, which is not very much at all.

Sorry for flashing you for nearly a year, neighbors

We finally got/made some window coverings for our living room.

Grouting

I feel like I've been grouting for 4 months..

We built a ...

firepit!