Little Tongue!
Hair!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Emma
I got a chance to go and meet Emma the other weekend, and this weekend, I finally got around to editing the photos:
Little Tongue!
Hair!
Little Tongue!
Hair!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Kitchen, Bathroom and Pantry - Before and After
We still need the countertops and backsplash installed (happens on February 1st and 2nd), and a bunch of misc painting to do, but the change so far is still pretty impressive.
You can still see all of the Remodel photos here, but since the coolest part is the Before & After, I'm just putting that here.
Looking in from Living Room - Before:
Looking in from Living Room - After:
Looking down the stairs - before (didn't use the wide angle, should have):
Looking down the stairs - after:
Sink Wall - before:
sink Wall - after. That's a FULL SIZE dishwasher, btw!:
Looking in from dining room - before:
Looking in from dining room - after. Notice how the fridge is moved down some and the first cabinet is angled. This makes the entryway feel much more open. Well, it IS much more open!:
Kitchen Floor - before:
Kitchen Floor - after. Bamboo. drool. The old floor, btw, was saved in order to "patch" the dining room floor, which is in much worse shape:
View from the back door - before:
View from the back door - after (pantry door closed). A lot of people seem "confused" by this part (mostly people who walk into the house and were all "wait. wasn't there a bathroom here?" The pantry was built in the area where the litter box and cat food (and cat!) were in the "before" photo. As in, it's a totally new room that didn't exist before. The door, as you can see, was "stolen" from the old coat closet.:
View from back door - after (pantry door open) The area below the bottom shelf? Will soon be one large wine rack + small wine fridge. Oh? and the back wall - the one with no shelves on it? that's EXACTLY where the old bathroom door was:
Bathroom - before:
Bathroom - after. Photo taken from the opposite wall as the before photo:
Bathroom - after. Standing in the doorway:
Bathroom - after. shower. You can also see the reflection of the new light:
Bathroom/entryway floor - before.:
Bathroom/entryway/pantry floor - after. (please ignore the construction dust):
(As I went through to create this entry, I realize I took a bunch more angles of "before" pictures than "after", so I might have to take some more photos tomorrow!)
Misc:
One of the only cabinet requirements I had was a pull-out spice rack. LOVE IT (it's the cabinet directly to the left of the stove. Directly to the right of the stove is a pull out cookie-sheet thingy):
Handles! weird, btw, that I had to decide WHERE on the cabinets they would go! Just one example of the million tiny decisions you need to make when doing a remodel like this. No way I could buy a new home where you need to make all these decisions for every room!
Contrast between cabinets and floor. It's hard to get all the colors exactly right in the photos (I think the floor looks darker in person), but you can definitely get the feel for the contrast. Love it!
You can still see all of the Remodel photos here, but since the coolest part is the Before & After, I'm just putting that here.
Looking in from Living Room - Before:
Looking in from Living Room - After:
Looking down the stairs - before (didn't use the wide angle, should have):
Looking down the stairs - after:
Sink Wall - before:
sink Wall - after. That's a FULL SIZE dishwasher, btw!:
Looking in from dining room - before:
Looking in from dining room - after. Notice how the fridge is moved down some and the first cabinet is angled. This makes the entryway feel much more open. Well, it IS much more open!:
Kitchen Floor - before:
Kitchen Floor - after. Bamboo. drool. The old floor, btw, was saved in order to "patch" the dining room floor, which is in much worse shape:
View from the back door - before:
View from the back door - after (pantry door closed). A lot of people seem "confused" by this part (mostly people who walk into the house and were all "wait. wasn't there a bathroom here?" The pantry was built in the area where the litter box and cat food (and cat!) were in the "before" photo. As in, it's a totally new room that didn't exist before. The door, as you can see, was "stolen" from the old coat closet.:
View from back door - after (pantry door open) The area below the bottom shelf? Will soon be one large wine rack + small wine fridge. Oh? and the back wall - the one with no shelves on it? that's EXACTLY where the old bathroom door was:
Bathroom - before:
Bathroom - after. Photo taken from the opposite wall as the before photo:
Bathroom - after. Standing in the doorway:
Bathroom - after. shower. You can also see the reflection of the new light:
Bathroom/entryway floor - before.:
Bathroom/entryway/pantry floor - after. (please ignore the construction dust):
(As I went through to create this entry, I realize I took a bunch more angles of "before" pictures than "after", so I might have to take some more photos tomorrow!)
Misc:
One of the only cabinet requirements I had was a pull-out spice rack. LOVE IT (it's the cabinet directly to the left of the stove. Directly to the right of the stove is a pull out cookie-sheet thingy):
Handles! weird, btw, that I had to decide WHERE on the cabinets they would go! Just one example of the million tiny decisions you need to make when doing a remodel like this. No way I could buy a new home where you need to make all these decisions for every room!
Contrast between cabinets and floor. It's hard to get all the colors exactly right in the photos (I think the floor looks darker in person), but you can definitely get the feel for the contrast. Love it!
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Kitchen, Bathroom, Pantry Remodel - Week One
Before I get to the remodel photos... I got some requests for captions to the 2011 Calendars because people wanted to know where the photos were taken. I wondered whether anyone would care that I didn't label them... apparently: yes. So, grab your calendars and jot down this "cheat sheet" of locations:
Cover: Sunset at the lodge at Mohican State Park
January: Left: Leaf in the snow at Cascade Valley Metro Park; Top right: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom right: also from Cascade Valley Metro Park
February: Top: Dock at Portage Lakes State Park (did you catch my little friend on the left?); Bottom Left: A tree down the street from my house; Bottom Right: Cascade Valley Metro Park
March: Top Left and Bottom Right are both from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (the Ledges trail); Top Right: windows on a building downtown (on Exchange St); Bottom Left: Furnace Run Metro Park
April: Lock 3 park in downtown Akron
May: Left: the garden in our back yard! Top Right: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom Right: Tree in our backyard
June: Top Left: road leading down to a marina near my Aunt Kitty's house; Top Right: a flower on my grandfather's property; Bottom Left: flowers at Aunt Kitty's house; Bottom Right: view from Aunt Kitty's deck
July: Top: Dandelion on the Taughannock Falls trail; Bottom Left: Lower falls at Taughannock Falls; Bottom Right: part of Grandpa's property.
August: Left: Alder Pond at Goodyear Heights Metro Park; Right: our back yard
September: Top Left: trail at Mohican State Park; Top Right: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom Left: Glendale Cemetery in Akron - part of the Worldwide Photo Walk; Bottom Right: Forsythia bush in our back yard
October: Top: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom Left: in the backyard of our friends Josh and Diana's house; Bottom Right: bushes along the fence at my parents' house
November: Top Left and Bottom: both from J.B. Williams Park in Glastonbury, CT; Top Right: Trail I went on in Pittsburgh with E, R and the kids
December: Top and Bottom Right: Decorations at my parents' house in Connecticut; Bottom Left: E's Christmas Tree.
I know I'm behind posting other photos - including Christmas ones - but I thought you'd all like to see the progress of the Remodel now that we're done with Week One! If you want to see ALL the photos (I've taken batches at the end of every day) - including the Before photos - you can start here and keep hitting the Next button (above the photo, on the right) to move through them all. If you're just interested in comparison photos between before and what it looks like now, at the end of week 1, just look below!
View from Living Room (before):
View from Living Room (now - with my wide angle lens, so you're seeing more - obviously):
View looking down the stairs (coat closet in front of you, but you can see the stove on your left):
View looking down the Stairs at the end of Day 1 (the only thing that's really changed since then is that there's insulation in the wall now - note in this photo, if you look at the ceiling, you can see where the coat closet used to be):
Fridge Wall (Before):
Fridge Wall at the end of Day 1 (once again, not much changed between then and now except that wall on the left with no drywall? it now has drywall):
Sink Wall Before:
Sink Wall Now. Note the lights in the ceiling, too! We used to just have one light hanging down (you can see it in this photo), and now we have three recessed lights.:
Stove Wall Before:
Stove Wall at the end of Day 1 (the only thing that's changed is the heating vent you see in the floor? it has been moved into the wall behind it). I LOVE how you really noticed the arched entryway now:
Bathroom Before:
I don't really have an equivalent photo for now, because the doorway I was standing in to take that photo is now a wall. But my bathroom floor looks something like this:
(in the above photo, you can see in the middle/top of the photo where the old bathroom door used to be. In the photo, the sink will be on the left and the toilet has been moved down so that it's directly across from the sink - you can see the white rag in the pipe for the toilet - yes, this will be a tight squeeze, but it's the only way a shower stall would fit in)
From the Back Door before (as in, you just walked into the house and this is what you see):
Looking in the Back Door now (that's our new pantry that John is standing in):
Other Photos:
Apparently I didn't take a Before photo of this, but this is standing in the Family Room (aka Poker Room) with my back towards the back wall of the house. Our back door is on the left (the one the above pictures were taken from), and the big wall in front of me is half new for the pantry (on the left) and half old from the bathroom. You can see the new doorway into the bathroom. (this photo was taken at the end of Day 4 - those walls are all spackled now and there's no window in the bathroom anymore):
Outside of the house, where the window used to be (you can see said window in this photo that I took shortly after moving into the house - all the way on the right). He obviously ran out of painted shingles (he has more drying from being primed sitting in the pantry, so I'm assuming he'll paint them on Monday and install them on Tuesday):
*phew* I think that's all the major ones! I'll post more as the project continues, of course.
Cover: Sunset at the lodge at Mohican State Park
January: Left: Leaf in the snow at Cascade Valley Metro Park; Top right: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom right: also from Cascade Valley Metro Park
February: Top: Dock at Portage Lakes State Park (did you catch my little friend on the left?); Bottom Left: A tree down the street from my house; Bottom Right: Cascade Valley Metro Park
March: Top Left and Bottom Right are both from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (the Ledges trail); Top Right: windows on a building downtown (on Exchange St); Bottom Left: Furnace Run Metro Park
April: Lock 3 park in downtown Akron
May: Left: the garden in our back yard! Top Right: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom Right: Tree in our backyard
June: Top Left: road leading down to a marina near my Aunt Kitty's house; Top Right: a flower on my grandfather's property; Bottom Left: flowers at Aunt Kitty's house; Bottom Right: view from Aunt Kitty's deck
July: Top: Dandelion on the Taughannock Falls trail; Bottom Left: Lower falls at Taughannock Falls; Bottom Right: part of Grandpa's property.
August: Left: Alder Pond at Goodyear Heights Metro Park; Right: our back yard
September: Top Left: trail at Mohican State Park; Top Right: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom Left: Glendale Cemetery in Akron - part of the Worldwide Photo Walk; Bottom Right: Forsythia bush in our back yard
October: Top: Sand Run Metro Park; Bottom Left: in the backyard of our friends Josh and Diana's house; Bottom Right: bushes along the fence at my parents' house
November: Top Left and Bottom: both from J.B. Williams Park in Glastonbury, CT; Top Right: Trail I went on in Pittsburgh with E, R and the kids
December: Top and Bottom Right: Decorations at my parents' house in Connecticut; Bottom Left: E's Christmas Tree.
I know I'm behind posting other photos - including Christmas ones - but I thought you'd all like to see the progress of the Remodel now that we're done with Week One! If you want to see ALL the photos (I've taken batches at the end of every day) - including the Before photos - you can start here and keep hitting the Next button (above the photo, on the right) to move through them all. If you're just interested in comparison photos between before and what it looks like now, at the end of week 1, just look below!
View from Living Room (before):
View from Living Room (now - with my wide angle lens, so you're seeing more - obviously):
View looking down the stairs (coat closet in front of you, but you can see the stove on your left):
View looking down the Stairs at the end of Day 1 (the only thing that's really changed since then is that there's insulation in the wall now - note in this photo, if you look at the ceiling, you can see where the coat closet used to be):
Fridge Wall (Before):
Fridge Wall at the end of Day 1 (once again, not much changed between then and now except that wall on the left with no drywall? it now has drywall):
Sink Wall Before:
Sink Wall Now. Note the lights in the ceiling, too! We used to just have one light hanging down (you can see it in this photo), and now we have three recessed lights.:
Stove Wall Before:
Stove Wall at the end of Day 1 (the only thing that's changed is the heating vent you see in the floor? it has been moved into the wall behind it). I LOVE how you really noticed the arched entryway now:
Bathroom Before:
I don't really have an equivalent photo for now, because the doorway I was standing in to take that photo is now a wall. But my bathroom floor looks something like this:
(in the above photo, you can see in the middle/top of the photo where the old bathroom door used to be. In the photo, the sink will be on the left and the toilet has been moved down so that it's directly across from the sink - you can see the white rag in the pipe for the toilet - yes, this will be a tight squeeze, but it's the only way a shower stall would fit in)
From the Back Door before (as in, you just walked into the house and this is what you see):
Looking in the Back Door now (that's our new pantry that John is standing in):
Other Photos:
Apparently I didn't take a Before photo of this, but this is standing in the Family Room (aka Poker Room) with my back towards the back wall of the house. Our back door is on the left (the one the above pictures were taken from), and the big wall in front of me is half new for the pantry (on the left) and half old from the bathroom. You can see the new doorway into the bathroom. (this photo was taken at the end of Day 4 - those walls are all spackled now and there's no window in the bathroom anymore):
Outside of the house, where the window used to be (you can see said window in this photo that I took shortly after moving into the house - all the way on the right). He obviously ran out of painted shingles (he has more drying from being primed sitting in the pantry, so I'm assuming he'll paint them on Monday and install them on Tuesday):
*phew* I think that's all the major ones! I'll post more as the project continues, of course.
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