Yesterday was a gorgeous day. We had a sunny blue sky and temperatures somewhere around 69F! Patrick and I snuck out for a while to do a little exterior work. I finally racked some leaves, but there’s no need to show you the rest of the yard because despite all my work it looks like I haven’t even touched the yard! I hope it won’t be fall before I manage to get rid of all the leaves…
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Yard Work
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Spring Love
Last week and over the weekend we painted most of the kitchen built-in, cleaned the laundry room, unpacked more boxes, and raked some leaves in the front yard. I’ll post a built-in pic when we finish the last bit.
In the meanwhile we discovered a lonely daffodil at the very back of our garden. As you can also see, the background shows the grass still being covered in leaves. This coming up week is supposed to bring warmer weather, so I hope to be able to do some yard work this weekend and get the garden ready for more spring flowers!
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Let There Be Pressure
Wednesday, February 14th – Valentine’s Day
Gus and Jim were back to do some work. And though they’re not plumber’s they helped us fix a plumbing problem. We’ve had water pressure issues for a while, and that morning the water pressure was so bad we had trouble getting the soap off our bodies. This was worse than hotel water pressure!
This is the water pressure we got on the “massage” setting. When we raised the issue some weeks ago, the plumber thought we could take out the anti-scalding device to fix the problem. After asking about going into the shower head to take out a gasket he said “they make it so you can’t do that anymore.”
Jim took off the shower head and voila – off came this little devil piece. Look at the hole our water had to squeeze through! We threw that right on in the trash, and oh my god I can actually wash the shampoo out of my hair again!
Thursday, February 15th
Gus and Jim installed the shelves for the bathroom built-in, finished the top off with some crown molding, and put some wood on the floor so that we won’t have to put things on the dirty unfinished hardwood that were there before. Now it looks more matching.
They also put little window ceils in the laundry room.
And built us a nice shelf by the washer and dryer, measured and fit perfectly for our Sam’s Club sized laundry detergent.
Posted in Before and After, Our Bungalow, Photos, Westview Bungalow
Tagged bathroom, built-in, carpentry, laundry, laundry room, linen closet, shower, shower head, southwest atlanta, water pressure, west end, west end bungalow, westview, westview bungalow
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More Progress
Our new guest bed arrived!
Gus and Jim came back to work on a few things…
…building shelves for the medicine cabinet.
…tearing out part of the bath built-in to access the plumber’s screw-up and pulling back the faucets so that they don’t stick out.
…making the bathroom window even (one part was higher than the other due to the Durock).
…building shelves for the kitchen built-in.
Meanwhile, later on that night…
…we were busy priming the kitchen built-in.
What do you do on a Tuesday night? Personally I like to crawl around on the kitchen floor, showing off my plumber’s crack, and getting into those deep kitchen built-in corners with some paint! :)
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Tagged bathroom, bed, built-in, butler's pantry, carpenter, faucet, guest bedroom, kitchen, medicine cabinet, molding, painting, shower, southwest atlanta, west end, west end bungalow, westview, westview bungalow
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Priming Bathroom
We did some more rearranging and cleaning, namely the front bedroom because our new bed will be delivered Tuesday!
Patrick also primed the walls by the shower.
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