Placitas House Remodel Update

John is now occupying the house in Placitas! Yay, no more renting. The next crucial things needed with that house are: doggie door installed, gates installed in the courtyard wall (there’s no point having a walled courtyard with wide open spaces where the gates should be), and kitchen cabinets installed.

Slowing us down is the fact that John wants to do all that himself. If we hired it, we could get it done faster. But John prefers to do the work himself when he can, because neither of us like the job of overseeing work being done.

Once we get those last few basics done, then we can focus on unpacking and setting up the furniture. Then once it’s reasonably livable, we can start on all the remaining interior details, and the landscaping.

We still have a trench in the front yard, for the electrical for the future hot tub. I’m still really happy with the new lighter paint color. It’s no longer the color of chocolate! (Or poop, depending on your perspective!)

Here’s the master bedroom. John bought inexpensive curtains from Lowes. We still need to get a bed.

And he bought a picture on clearance at Lowes, LOL. We have better pictures…somewhere.

Here’s the guest bedroom – those are solar panels you see out the window, yay! That red hide-a-bed is going to fade if we don’t get blinds up soon.

Here’s the office.

More office. I’m forever needing stuff that’s in those boxes. And it’s not just that it’s still in boxes – it’s in boxes in a different part of the state!

We bought this rug at the Jackalope in Santa Fe. It’s a fairly large one, 10 x 8. I’m looking forward to seeing it rolled out and the living room furniture set up. It matches the brick well.

Here’s the dining room with the added sliding door.

Cabinets ready to install in the dining room, under the new picture window in the dining room.

Here’s the kitchen with some cabinets already installed (or possibly just sitting there). They are going to look nice when it’s done. Unfortunately there’s no gas line. We’d have to bring it all the way up the hill from the street. So our options are – buy a new expensive electric stove, or use the old electric stove we bought a few years ago when it was a rental. Meh.

The kitchen is still missing most of the cabinets.

New flagstone behind the wood stove in the family room.

And lots and lots of boxes! And house plants. Of course!