Kitchen

OK, here are some photos of the kitchen, or at least the cabinets in the kitchen. The cabinets will be painted white when all is finished. Not all the doors have been put on yet, but you can still get an idea of how things will look. This first photo was taken from the breakfast area. This next photo is still from the breakfast area, but farther to the left showing the half wall that divides the kitchen from the living room.

This photo was taken from standing in the living room.

There's not too much noticeable work going on right now. The guys who will be painting have been caulking all the cracks and crevasses. The cabinet guys still need to come back and finish up, too.

Still More House Photos

Here are a few more photos of what's been going on at the house this past week. I took these yesterday when there were no workman and not so much sawdust. Here is the fireplace. It will have black granite tiles around the face and extending 24 inches in front. The wood will be stained and varnised. This is the bench in the mudroom. They have not got the doors on it yet, but there will be four doors on the bottom and four doors on the top.

Here is the redesigned cabinets for the bonus room kitchenette. There will be a small microwave above the counter on the right, and a small refrigerator underneath. Again, the doors have not been installed on the cabinets.

Things are coming along. The painters are caulking the woodwork, and they may get started this week. I have met with the man who is doing the tile work, and we have that sorted out. So that's how things stand for now.

Knitting or House or Both

I finished the rusted root sweater for Sarah. It still needs to be blocked. I will post pictures when that is done. I have resurrected the faroese shawl that I started last year. I want to get it done, and with the weather we have been having lately, it will be nice and warm to wear. I have also been knitting cotton face cloths for Sarah. They are easy and fun to do.

Things have been a little crazy at the house this week. The cabinet guys have been working all week. After some confusion as to what I wanted, things are going better now. They have had to tear out some of the work they had done, because it was not right, and I called them on it.

The other interesting aspect we found out this week is that the half wall between the kitchen and living room is about a foot too far into the living room. We found this out because the cabinets in the kitchen were not lining up correctly when going by the plan. It's too late to change the wall now, so we will have to live with it. It's not a horrible error, but I'm perturbed that it was not caught by the contractor. I did not think we needed to measure everything as we went along. Obviously, I was wrong. The positive outcome of the wall being misplaced is that now I will have a wider island in the kitchen. I will have more storage, and it will be a lovely work space.

No pictures of the house right now, because there is just too many people and too much sawdust.

Aarrrggg!!!!

So....I resurrected a shawl that I started a long time ago that had been sitting in the bottom of my knitting bag. I knit two very, very long rows and realized I had made a mistake at the beginning of the first row. It's a mistake that cannot be fixed by going back under the stitch or anything like that. Consequently, I am tinking back all of the two very, very, very long rows to fix it. Aarrrggg!!!!!!!

Column update

After all the uproar about the columns (see restored post on January 8), this is what we have. Nice round columns that look really good. Here is a closer shot. The columns will get painted along with everything else later on, but I am really happy with the way they look.

New Knitting

So...what do you do with seven skeins of Tahki Classic Cotton in teal? You make this. This is the Rusted Root sweater by Sarah Johnson and Rachel Bishop. My Sarah and I were at Twisted Yarns for their after Christmas/before inventory sale. Sarah saw this pattern and fell in love with it. Then we had to find a yarn for it.

Here's a close up of the leaf detail. I still have about 3 or 4 inches more to knit on it, but it has gone quickly. And of course, it will need to be blocked. I'm still not really sold on cotton yarn, but for our climate it should get more wear, and Sarah really liked it.

House Progress

Here is the original post that was supposed to be posted on January 8. I thought I had lost it, but it was saved in Blogger, I just didn't know how to get to it. Sometimes my computer skills are not so great.

Here is a house update. Things were pretty quiet over the holidays, but work has picked up again now. The construction guys have started working on the inside this week. Here is a view of my pantry. I love the shelving. This will all get painted later. This is a view of the molding being put in the dining room.

Here is a view of the molding and baseboards in the master bedroom.

And last, but not least we have bases for our columns. They are suposed to be installed later today, so hopefully I will have another photo of the front porch later.

We had a miscommunication between the contractor, his construction supervisor and ourselves. Or maybe I should say it was a lack of communication. The plans initially showed round columns on top of the bases, but Wally and I had talked to the contractor about doing square craftsman style columns. The contractor had drawn pictures and said sure, it could be done. Well, the change did not get communicated to the supervisor by the contractor or by us (we could have done it at our red line meeting), so he ordered round columns as per plan. When we were out looking at the house on Sunday we saw round columns being stored in the dining room, so Monday morning I emailed everyone to find out what was going on. That's when we learned of the mix up. To make a long story short, we are going to have round columns after all. It's just too much trouble to send the columns back, plus we would have to get the change approved by the architectural control committee which could take weeks. When all is done, I think it will look fine. I just need to keep telling myself I need to be flexible.