the remaking of a kitchen

project of the week: house painting, by someone other than ourselves. what a great idea! we spent a week or so muttering about colors, had input from brian and continued to mutter, but by gosh we made a timely decision. that would be once. the main color is similar to the existing, and we are using a lighter value for the soffit. we are tres cool! :)
two marvelous things are the removal of the DIAMONDS that are not this girl's best friend, and the removal of the tacky trellisy thing on the front porch. as we speak they are both absent, and you can plainly see that at one point the poor house was a brilliant turquoise. elvis would have loved it. we are undecided as to whether we want to put a post from soffit to planter or leave it as is. paul the painter suggested we leave it for a couple of weeks and if we want the post, he'll come back. works for me.
i'm looking forward to seeing the panels in place replacing diamonds....should be a nice update. hopefully. the painting should be completed before we leave for colorado. YES!
i am thinking i may want tree removal as an anniversary present. we are on a roll here! ohhhh....the nice inspector gave us the seal of approval on the furnace install after the pvc pipes became the 3 inch variety. sigh.

Labels: diamonds, furnace and a/c, house paint, tree, trellis

we have actually chosen a painter and he will probably paint the house in early july before we go to estes. we went paint shopping and chose some paint that is taupe, but with brown tones and a lighter shade for the soffit. we decided to eliminate the trellis piece that is on the front porch....we may put one post in there, but then again maybe we won't! the other big decision is getting rid of the diamonds that shout 50's on the front of the house. we will put in panels that are similar to those on the front porch and by the front windows.
the bummer today was the city mechanical inspector refusing to ok the installation of the furnace and a/c. the pvc pipe for exhaust that they installed across the length of the basement to the north from the furnace (instead of using the chimney) is 2" and according to code and the furnace specs it needs to be 3 ". aaaack. we await word on when they will return to change that. good grief!

Labels: furnace and a/c, painting

in this group the new position of the hot water heater is shown by the avocado green refrigerator which needs to go bye bye. the air conditioner is shown with the top off as they are bleeding all the freon out of the system. this a/c is larger than the old one as the new gas is better for the environment, but less efficient so the motor etc has to work harder. go figure. we are all shiny and new and they even work just fine. next project is painting the house. brian and gary came over tonight, brian bearing paint samples with suggestions for colors. his idea and it's a good one is to stay with taupe but go to the brown shade rather than the gray to better blend with the brick. makes sense to me.

Labels: furnace and a/c

you can see that the supervisor is at work, and watching that things are done correctly. these guys arrived at 7:05am and left at 7:20pm. the hot water heater needed to be moved and that caused some issues. the hole in the wall is outside the den, and the new site for the thermostat. in the living room the sun hit it each afternoon so that room seemed chilly and so did the rest of the house because the furnace didn't go on. now, it's fixed we think.

Labels: furnace and a/c