Sunday, March 13, 2011

Week 77, 78, 79: Building Closets






We spent the last 2 weekends building out the Ikea closets (Pax system in a White Stain Oak color) that were delivered to the site months ago. Error on our part: forgetting that 2 of the closets (the Coat Closet and LVL Guest Bedroom closet) were designed to be more shallow to allow for more room for the rest of the house. This means ripping down the Ikea panels to fit, I'm not sure if those composite pieces will last thorugh that process. We will see. Ikea has a 90 days return policy, too bad we already passed that point, so must push on.
The LVM Walk In and LVL Master bedroom closets are done. Turned out really great, once we got the process down, it was smooth sailing. Don't be fooled by the simplicity, it will require your entire day, even if you are a seasoned pro with Ikea furniture.

News on the rest of the house. LVL Guest Bathroom is completely tiled and grouted. It really looks beautiful, glad we decided with the marble. Adam is now working on LVM bathroom last wall. Master bathroom is get to start tiling. Matt spent the last 2 weeks painting. We made it extra hard for him since the entire master was in green board, this makes covering the green with primer and paint that much more tedious. More coats needed of course.

In a surprising twist, we just found out that Central Hudson just came last week to install our meter to account for our Solar Panel power generation! So this means we've been generating power without net metering for over 2 months! What? How did this oversight happen?
Time Warner came out last week to install internet, working out great, we have the cheapest plan and the connection is fast due to a low population. Not planning to get cable TV due to the price. It's all about streaming TV for the future anyway.

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