Remodel Update

Just in case you’re wondering…Here’s recent photos of the remodel. At the moment, nothing is happening…the new floors should be going in any day.

It’s a mess:

Some, but not all, of the cabinets got painted.

Here’s the ones that aren’t painted (or installed either, for that matter).

Here’s the brick for the downstairs floors:

It came on a great big flatbed truck, with an attached forklift he used to bring it up the hill.

The mesquite for upstairs has also been delivered (ignore the fact that the loose pieces are laying on an old carpet pad, the carpet & pad just haven’t been removed yet.)

The mesquite is redder than it looks in this photo, and will be even more so after it’s been oiled. We love the amount of character it has!

Speaking of character, here’s our new back courtyard walls:

The front courtyard wall will be painted when we repaint the house a LIGHTER COLOR! The front wall blocks have been stuccoed, so you won’t see the block lines in the front courtyard once it’s dry (and painted). The back courtyard has split face blocks, which stay as is and don’t need painted.

Here is the cement pad for the hot tub! It doesn’t look like much. You’ll have to use your imagination. Someday there will be a patio roof, and brick walkways, and plants. And of course, a hot tub!

Oh, and here they are dumping sand. I’m not even sure what it’s for.

It could have something to do with redoing the living room floor – it was a sunken living room, so we had them raise it to the same height as the other floors, which they did with a wood subfloor. But they did a bad job (it wasn’t level) and it had to be ripped out. So now a different contractor is going to redo it, this time with cement, which will match the rest of the downstairs floors, which are cement slab. So maybe the sand is for the cement. The sand could also be for the brick. After brick is installed, sand is dusted over it, and the sand goes in all the little cracks and then the brick is tight and won’t shift. This is done instead of grout, and is the traditional way to lay brick in this region. In the end, it should look like this: