Here are some of the kitchen cabinets being stored in the dining room. After 18 months of storage in my garage, I was finally able to move them over to the house. Jeffrey has temporarily taken off his Construction Management hat (
http://www.swainhart.com/) and put on his carpenter's hat, and is going to do the kitchen for me. Buying the cabinets used from the ReUse Center saved me a ton of money, as new "greenly made" cabinets are quite expensive. The preliminary estimates I had gotten were between $20,000 and $25,000 for the kitchen. The used cabinets I bought, which are oak and in very good shape, cost about $1,600. Jeffrey is having to do quite a bit of cannibalizing to make the cabinets fit properly into the kitchen. He's having to build sections from scratch to house the wall ovens and dishwasher. He's a very smart guy, and very creative. He's making everything fit together really well, and saving me a bundle in the process.
Finally, we were ready to do the tubing for the radiant in-floor heating on the main level. Below shows the tubes installed, looking from the living room back through the dining room to the kitchen.
Below are the tubes in the living room, and below that, the finshed poured Gypcrete floor.
Below are the tubes looking back through the bathroom hallway to the back bedroom, and below that, the Gypcrete floor over the tubes. One of the very last things I'll do is put on a bamboo floor over the Gypcrete.
I got my garden in very late, as I was planning on doing it the first week in June, but because of my injuries, didn't get it in until mid-July. I'm amazed that everything grew so fast and I'm actually going to get a full crop of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, and cantelope.
One of the best things to happen was the start of the stucco. Although the manufacturors of the FasWall say stucco can be applied directly to the FasWall blocks with no wire mesh, my stucco contractor, Everlast Stucco, didn't want to do that. He would have had to put the wire mesh on the wooden gables, but he also put it on the blocks, which was fine with me. The two pictures below show the wire mesh installed.
Finally, the brown coat (yes, I know it's grey in color) is on. I had just sprayed it before I took the picture. I'm spraying the entire house every day for 10 days to cure the brown coat so it won't crack. Everlast Stucco will come back next Monday to apply the stucco finish. The outside is actually looking like a real house now.
Finally, we were ready to do the tubing for the radiant in-floor heating on the main level. Below shows the tubes installed, looking from the living room back through the dining room to the kitchen.
Below are the tubes in the living room, and below that, the finshed poured Gypcrete floor.
Below are the tubes looking back through the bathroom hallway to the back bedroom, and below that, the Gypcrete floor over the tubes. One of the very last things I'll do is put on a bamboo floor over the Gypcrete.
I got my garden in very late, as I was planning on doing it the first week in June, but because of my injuries, didn't get it in until mid-July. I'm amazed that everything grew so fast and I'm actually going to get a full crop of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, and cantelope.
One of the best things to happen was the start of the stucco. Although the manufacturors of the FasWall say stucco can be applied directly to the FasWall blocks with no wire mesh, my stucco contractor, Everlast Stucco, didn't want to do that. He would have had to put the wire mesh on the wooden gables, but he also put it on the blocks, which was fine with me. The two pictures below show the wire mesh installed.
Finally, the brown coat (yes, I know it's grey in color) is on. I had just sprayed it before I took the picture. I'm spraying the entire house every day for 10 days to cure the brown coat so it won't crack. Everlast Stucco will come back next Monday to apply the stucco finish. The outside is actually looking like a real house now.
