West Elm St Home

2009-11-08T16:07:00.000-08:00

This weekend was a big leaf raking weekend:

We Worked both days at our house and Sunday Morning at Memere and Pepere's:

Memere and Pepere's Before:

During:

After:

Neighbors 1937 Packard for Sale.... A real Creme Puff:

Leaf Raking back at Home:

2009-10-29T07:12:00.000-07:00

I don't know how we missed it, but it appears we may have built the new house on an old Cemetary........ Sort of reminds me of Cuesta Verde in the early 80's............. We need to sleep with one eye open at night....And the kid's need to stop watching TV....

2009-10-08T17:04:00.000-07:00

We had our attic insulated with Blown in foam to try and prevent the Ice Dams this winter. Hopefully this will be a final cure. We should also see and improvement in our utility bills.

Main Attic

Inside the front porch roof - Insulating the exterior walls

Laura's Room

This Sunday's Pat's Game

2009-08-23T04:27:00.001-07:00

This weekend was an all swing day. The kids got a swingset and Mom and Dad got a front porch swing.

A Few Bonus "Katharine the Menace" Shots

2009-07-12T07:52:00.000-07:00

The Garden is just about wrapped up. Unfortunatly all the rain and no sun has pretty much not allowed anything to grow. (Barely even the grass)

2009-06-05T06:55:00.000-07:00

The majority of the landscaping is done for this year. We just need to wait for the Grass to Grow.

Garden Patio Area:

Future Patio area :

2009-05-20T07:30:00.001-07:00

Recent landscaping photos. We are getting close to having a yard.

Garden and Horseshoe Area

Front Yard

New Visitor to the yard

2009-05-01T18:33:00.000-07:00

Some new Landscape Pictures

2009-04-22T16:15:00.000-07:00

2009-04-12T04:13:00.001-07:00

Easter Pictures:

2009-04-12T04:04:00.000-07:00

The Landscaping begins:

We had about 300 yards of fill brought in this week. This should allow Joe D to finish the subgrading. Joe moved the large rock pile to the back of the prperty so it doesn't get in the way as much but. Hopefully if the weather agrees we can get the loam spread and a lawn planted next week.

2008-11-02T08:49:00.000-08:00

11/2/08 I finished up the side walk this weekend. (at least as finished as it is going to get before winter) I also planted the tree we got recently. I think it is a Japanese Maple - Acer Fireglow. I also threw in a shot of the flock of Turkeys that frequents our yard.

2008-11-01T04:06:00.000-07:00

Seeing as how the MyFamily.Com site isn't currently working. I figured I would post some party and halloween pictures to this site.

Joe's 5th Birthday party at PlayTown Express

Halloween 2008

2008-10-20T15:44:00.000-07:00

10-20-2008

2008-10-18T15:10:00.000-07:00

Here are some recent photos of some work being done on the Front Porch and Walkway.

2008-06-16T09:56:00.000-07:00

This weekend we moved in to the new house. The cleaners worked on Saturday to get the house ready for us. Once they left Dad, Laura, and I moved in the bare essentials (Cribs and Coffee Pot) so the family could spend the night. Joe graciously allowed us to all sleep in his room as the Master Bedroom still doesn't have carpeting. On Sunday Steve stopped by and help us move the remainder of the critical items over. The pictures below are taken just after the cleaners left. It will probably never look this good again. I think the final construction tally is about 26 months.

2008-06-12T14:46:00.000-07:00

We are approved to move in!!!!

I received a 30 Day Certificate of Occupancy permit today. We have a few items to clear up before I can get a full OC but that shouldn't be a problem. We move in for Good on Sunday.

2008-05-15T09:13:00.000-07:00

We are starting to see a light at the end of this 2 Year + Tunnel. Plumbing is now done. Trim is done. We still have about a weeks worth of paint touch up to complete. Electric has a couple of days left to complete. And here are some updated pictures:

Master Bath Whirpool Tub

Master Bathroom

1st Floor 1/2 Bath

Children's Bath

2nd Flr Laundry

Last weekend Dad, Dunc, Steve and I worked on getting the fronch porch installed. It is a pretty slow process. We worked ~8 hours and got about 15' done.

2008-04-16T13:05:00.000-07:00

Now that the nice weather is starting to return and we have FIOS TV at the house the kids can start spending more time visiting.

We have been slowly but surely getting some work accomplished. Recently Kyle has been busy installing the finished electrical fixtures: Ed has been doing some of the remaining trim items: We had the refrigerator Installed.

2008-03-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

March Update - The finish Electrical is almost complete. The countertops were installed today.

Kitchen

1st Floor Powder Room

Master Bath

2nd Floor Hall 1/2 Bath

2008-02-19T07:51:00.000-08:00

A few small signs of progress. Dad and I finished temporarily decking the front porches with plywood. We also built some temporary railings to keep people off the undecked areas. We will do the real decking in the Spring when the weather is nicer.

T & J came and installed the range hood. Now if we only had a Range...

The Plumbing is beginning to get installed. Here is the toilet in the Powder room on the first floor.

The Dishwasher got installed.

2008-02-01T04:23:00.000-08:00

Not alot happening these days. We put together the Vanity for the powder room on the first floor. Kyle has been busy doing the finish electrical.

The Master bath Cabinets went in this week. We are now ready to template for the countertops.

Joe is hanging out by the fire in his PJs.

2008-01-16T16:25:00.000-08:00

The Kitchen cabinets are pretty much installed.

The tile guys were back to continue on the master bath.

2008-01-10T15:57:00.000-08:00

Day 2 of the kitchen cabinet install. Keith of Whitaker Carpentry worked on installing the Island

2008-01-10T04:19:00.000-08:00

The end of 2007 brought Ice Dams to the new house.

I used an IceRake to clear off whatever snow and ice I could before the rains came. This stopped the problem for this time.

Damage on the Family Room Ceiling.

Today (Wednesday 1/9/8) The cabinets started to get installed. They started working on the stove wall.