Already a Good Weekend

I have been slowly working on the bed for the second bedroom. Wednesday night the jute webbing came in and I started attaching the supports. Well, until I blew a couple nails out of the top, SH*T! A couple days worth of repair later and I picked up.

Attaching the webbing.

One half completed
Done but upside down.

The door hinges let me fold it half to get it around the hallway corner and into the bedroom. I reinstalled the legs and the headboard in the room.

Jointing/hinge/leg detail.

All ready for the mattress.

Hey look a bed, the cats haven't been able to crawl under a bed for over a year. Now we will know where to find Nera when she gets scared.

That was more work than I expected, but it looks nice.

This project didn't take much other than a lot of time:
- 2 sheets Baltic birch plywood (with a bunch leftover),

-Glue,

-6 hairpin legs,

-2 headboard supports,

- Polyurethane finish,

A neighbor's table saw, pocket screw jig, and a few screws

My table saw would have never handled those birch sheets so big thanks to Jerad.

Thomas Edison would be so proud

The weather this weekend was gorgeous. The humidity was low and temps were is the low 80's. We opened up the house and spent as much time outside as possible. We put in a few miles Saturday morning and then worked, worked, worked. Saturday night (starting on Thursday) I made pulled pork and hung out with friends. It is nice having the kitchen and dining room into usable conditions. Sam installed and caulked lots of trim and did a bunch of paint touch ups.

I finished sanding the bed and started putting on polyurethane. I have to go to Louisiana, but that should be done this week.

Sam and Nera both enjoy looking out through the skylights.
Hey look another cool thing that has been packed away for years. This is one of the Murano glass lights from Italy we bought on our honeymoon.

The original version of this one broke in shipping and it took forever for the master to make another. We have three more that will get mounted over the kitchen table.

Wait is that? Yep another light. We have only been in the house a year without a front light. Now we won't fall over the flamingo when coming home.

Checking Some Things off the List

Like any good German we can answer how relaxing a weekend was by the amount of work accomplished. By those standards this was a very relaxing weekend. Friday night Sam made an excellent version of Unos All-American pizza, or at least what we remember from undergrad in Platteville, WI. Saturday I ran 15 miles in the morning and mowed the yard in 8 minutes using our neighbor Eric's new 48-inch stand-up mower, which was awesome. Some trim got installed in the hallway and bathroom, oooooo. Sam got the fireglass ordered for the fireplace and took the Dalis in to get framed. Real artwork is expensive. Sunday we got cinnamon rolls at Dolce and got the kitchen painted. I even managed to cook a citrus chicken with pasta sauce using tomatoes and herbs from the garden.

I borrowed a pocket screw jig from Jerad to put together the bed. The pocket screws are strong and perfect when you can hide them.

Both halves of the bed are together and need to be finished this week. I just set the hairpin legs on to see how they look.
A craigslist purchase. The tulip base will be turned into some sort of table for the patio, more to come later.

I finally got our entryway light put together. We got an industrial shade and built everything else to match the other house lights.

Hey check that out. The white is primer and will get painted the house color, the orange stays. Like our collection of license plates.

While I was working in the garage Sam got the exciting job of cutting in for priming and painting the kitchen, not really.

All the wall are grey except for this one, which needs a second coat but you get the picture.

Look no more beige. The berm and the trees and in full-coverage. You can't see anything from our kitchen right now.

In my spare time I got the drawer fronts mounted on the bathroom vanity. Some work is left to get the straight and flush, but now you can't see our toothbrushes. Since the bathroom was pretty gross I took a couple hours on Sunday and scrubbed it down too.

And we managed to drink a little wine with dinner tonight and catch up on a few old Mad Men episodes. All in all it was a pretty good weekend.

Welcome to August

It is hard to believe summer is winding down. School starts in 3 weeks. That means the push is on to get as much finished before the homes tour as possible.

All of the IKEA cabinets are together. Here is a shot with one of the doors with some of the protective film pulled back. The top and bottom pieces are almost finished and most of this should get installed this week. The top of this will be concrete (of course) with the broken red murano glass pieces in the surface and fiber optics. I am such a nerd, the concrete top will have a power unit. This is a much needed item for our house. The buffet will free up cabinet space by holding all of the wine, liquor, and barware. It will also give the cats someplace to sit and look out the back windows other than the kitchen counters. We don't let them up but surprisingly cat footprints end up on the stove nightly.

The desk top has been ground and filled. It will have to hang out a week or so to get hard enough to polish. The white concrete with the green and blue glass looks really good.
Jerad helped me rip down the baltic birch pieces for the bed. Big thanks to him for being my left hand and keeping me from doing too much. All the cuts are made and I have started gluing the pieces together.
The stainless steel hairpin pegs and headboard support for the bed. Everything came from hairpinlegs.com