Happy March! Since last week not too much has happened. We were hoping for the exterior painting of the garage door and around the windows to be done this past week, but due to the weather that was all delayed.

What was able to happen was that Ideal Building was able to frame the mirror in the bathroom and finished up securing the fixtures in our shower. Outside of that, Gary and I got a lot of work done in the house this weekend. First we moved all the furniture and stuff that has been stored in the Living Room since October into the garage or the crawl space. We took pictures of our old TV Room sofa, chair, and coffee table. We plan to sell those on craigslist soon.


Now that the living room has been cleared out, Ideal Building will start the remodel of this room (including replacing the fireplace) early next week. The carpet will stay but we will replace all of the trim with the knotty pine and paint the walls in this room and the dining room.

Finally, we spent a lot of hours (up until 11pm on Sunday) tiling up the backsplash from the original 6 inch height all the way up the walls underneath the cabinets. You can see how far we went up behind the coffee maker. We cut slate tile into 2 X 12 inch strips and then stacked them up the wall.

We went as far as we could around the tv as we had to stop to allow Paramatrix to install the window sill granite. Speaking of that, Paramatrix was supposed to come out last Thursday to install the granite that broke the first time they were out a month ago. However they called Robert Thursday morning to say they broke the replacement granite at the factory and promised they would be out the next day. Friday came and went with no appearance of Paramatrix. I called Ideal Building, they called Paramatrix, Paramatrix said they called us (they didn't) blah, blah, blah... Anyway - the showed up on Monday and you will notice that the granite is in the picture above. With that done, Ideal Buidling can come back out and reframe the window and the kitchen will be done.

We plan to finish the backsplash this weekend - and look forward to the next phase of our remodel.