Downstairs Video

This video is of the downstairs of the house

Another Video

This is a video of the 2nd floor!

We are Finshed

Hey everyone, The house is finished! We still need to clean out the garage, hook up a vent and install a handrail. We should have final approval from the city tommorrow. I have taken some video for those of you who didn't make it to the party!

Thanks for everyone who showed up for the party. We ended up with about 100+ people comming through last Sunday. We drank quite a bit of libations and eat a heap of food.

The consensus from the party goers and the 40+ people that cam to my open house on Sunday sais it was beautiful and verywell done. The only complaint was from 2 seperate people, who said it was to small. I didn't realize that 2500sqft was small. Oh well, I am confident that someone will be very happy with this house.

This video is of the 1st floor of the house-

Finally another post

Okay....We are finally back from Mexico and alot has been done since we left.

Landscaping is in

Lighting is in and Electrical has been passed

Sidewalks have been replaced

Garage Doors are installed

The final coat in down on the floors

All appliances are in and working

The house has been totally cleaned by an excellent cleaning crew (more later on this)

All plumbing is installed. We are just awaiting the slab for the main upstairs bath

Basically today is the 6th and we will be done on the 9th! We are just about done, Just a bunch of little stuff to do and the final touch up.

For those of you following the blog, we are having a Friends,Neighbors,Client and workmans open house this Sunday Nov 11th from 4-8pm. So come on by and have a look at our finished, totally remodeled 1909 American 4 square.

The home will be going on the market November 12th, so if your intersted call me with any questions.

See you Sunday!

The Specs

3 Bedrooms

3 Baths (Master has it's own bath with a jacuzzi tub)

2 Car Garage

Media Room (wired for surround sound)

Formal Dining Room

Formal Living Room

250sqft Deck off the Kitchen

2 Fireplaces

Big Corner Lot

Fully fenced yard

Walking distance to 3 schools, shopping, restaurants and parks

2400 sqft

Iron Chef Kitchen

Breakfast Bar and Nook

Wired for T1

Oak and Fir floors

Peek a boo view

This has to be one of the friendliest neighborhoods I have ever seen. Neighbors have stopped by to drop off food, drinks and to invite us to fish and sail.

Some New Photos

I finally posted a few new photos for everyone to look over. Just click on the title bar

3 Month Anniverary

Well- We just passed our 3 month anniversary on the house. Our original schedule was to finish the 9th. It doesn't look like that's happening. We will hit our new completion date of Nov 1st, for sure. It's padded for any addtional unexpected delays.

What's left?

1. Finish carpentry. The boys are doing an excellent job and cranking it out pretty damn fast. Almost the entire house is done including our awesome boxed dining room ceiling with crown molding.

2. Carpets for the basement.

3. Some landscaping

4. Garage Doors

5. Some more fending

6. Plumbing fixtures

7. Painting

8, Lighting fixtures

9. General clean up and staging.


More pictures will follow tomorrow, so everyone can see how it is comming together. The last post until October 25th will be this comming Friday night. Although it is the worst possible time to be leaving, I am off to Cabo San Lucas to watch my neice and her wonderful fiance' tie the knot.

Slacker

Sorry for not getting around to posting for awhile. Between selling homes and trying to get this house done, I havn't had much time for sleep let alone updating my blog.

Since my last post we have finished drywalling, priming and painting the interior. We still have touch painting to do after all the molding and finish carpentry is done.

Vladamir and Roman have installed our new oak floors on the main floor and put on a beautiful finish on. I was amazed at how good of a job they did re-finishing the original fir floors on the stairs and the 2nd story...they look great and these guys do great work. I am hiring to do our other house in Alki, which I have been dreading for 4 years.

The tile work in all the bathrooms, laundry room and mud room should be finished today. We went with a classic look in the powder room on the main floor as well as the main upstiars bathroom. The master we decided to go with a more modern look and finally the basment bath, laundry and mud rooms got nice utilitarian tile.

The lawn is also in and looking great! I will post pictures of this later today.

It looks like we are 3 days behind schedule for our original estimate. We were thinking we would be done the 9th, but now it's the 12th.

What else? We had to let go our finish carpenter this week because he called in sick again. It's a long story and unfortunate because we liked him. Dalen (Our Consultant extrodinare) has hired a awesome crew to crank out all the molding, hang the doors, build out our banister, fireplace and hang our kitchen cabinets. They start on tuesday and will be done friday. So I will have to stay out of there way.

I guess that's it for now. More later with some pictures.