September 30th, 2008
I am officially crossing the basement off my list!
Come on downstairs.
Yes, the stairs themselves leave a lot to be desired, especially since the last two steps have been patched in (see my post on cat pee to read why). When we re-do the stairs to the second floor (located directly above these), we’re hoping [...]
September 26th, 2008
Another week has gone by already and unfortunately I don’t have much to say (at least about the house).
We are nearing completion of the basement fixes. The only thing left to do is cut and install the baseboard for the wall sections we had to replace. The door has been hung and the trim [...]
September 17th, 2008
Fortunately our basement remained dry throughout the heavy rainfall in the Chicago area last weekend. We noticed our neighbor drying out a few things from her basement, but our street is in a relatively high part of town, so I think most people had only minor damage, if anything. We haven’t seen the people who [...]
September 13th, 2008
I received some fantastic suggestions for our kitchen layout — a very big “thank you” to my readers!
Here is the proposed basic layout again.
Some of the suggestions were along the lines of what I was thinking as well, such as Cheryl’s suggestion to “wait and see” about the island. I would still love to have [...]
September 11th, 2008
Because we will have to widen the second floor staircase to meet code for our attic remodel, we have to steal a few inches from one of the rooms that adjoin the stairs: the kitchen or dining room. The architect suggested taking it from the dining room, thinking that it would be cheaper than removing [...]
September 9th, 2008
Way back last summer, even before we moved into the bungalow, we had to tear out part of the wall in the finished part of the basement because of the cat pee stench the PO left behind. We had a month from the time we closed on the house until we moved in, and the [...]
September 5th, 2008
I’ve alluded to some progress we’ve made recently, and here it is: we hired an architect for our upstairs space and first floor mudroom!
The architect we chose has experience working with Morton Grove’s building department, and that’s one of the reasons we went with him. We didn’t want anything cutting-edge, nor did we need someone [...]
September 4th, 2008
Pete spied this mantis perched on the roof. (S)he let me snap a few pictures before flying off.
September 2nd, 2008
Well, I wish I could say that we’ve been away on a fabulous vacation, but alas, no such luck. I’ve just been too busy with work to post anything. That, and we haven’t done all that much around the bungalow.
I do have some new things to report, however, so I’ll get to those as [...]