Walls!

Check it out:

New Garden Window going in


View from the inside


Amazing new patio door


Ready for the final coat of mud and time to paint


You can also see our new casement window. Much better than the first window.

It's really happening!

So here's where my mistakes start to catch up to me. I am learning as I go along and so I'm bound to screw some things up.

First, we hated the double-hung window that we ordered. We wanted a tall window and wanted it to match the age/style of the house. So we ordered a 26" x 48" double hung window for the wall over the prep sink. What we didn't realize is that when the window is closed, the center stile is directly in front of your eyes. So instead of looking out the window at the yard/tree/deck, you are constantly looking at a window frame. Yuck!

So we're biting the bullet, selling that window and ordering a new one. The new window is a left-hinged casement window with no frames in the middle. It's also a little bigger and will help put the window more infront of the prep sink.

The nice park about doing this myself is that i'm saving $1500 on labor, so if i spend $200 extra on parts, i'm still doing fine. And I'm getting better at putting the windows in, shimming them, and making everything fit.

Second big mistake, is that we have been aware of the lead times of various items but didn't take enough care to schedule their arrival at the right time. Some of this is salespeople who wanted a sale pushing us to make a purchase and us not pushing back enough to set the schedule rigorously. Part of it is the delays in construction (due to vacation, unanticipated design time, etc.

So that means that my cabinets arrived yesterday and I won't be putting them in for a week or so. But they have to live somewhere!

Here they are, stacked in my spare bedroom. You can see my dresser in the background. Oh well.




This gives me the motivation to finish everything quickly and get these installed. At least they look great and I'm excited about the final product.

Windows!