We can now call the front of the house finished… Okay, almost finished: we still need to re-stain the underside of the eaves to return them to their original tone (the previous owners re-stained the original cement-green-stained redwood to an odd light-blue color), but that's a pretty specific painting detail.
In this case, I'm talking about a new side-light window and trim which finishes off the "construction" part of the exterior-front of the house.
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I discovered something on the toilet (literally) a few weeks ago:
The "higher power" of design can only be realized once its basic objectives are met.
(You can quote me on that).
In this case, I don't care if my toilet is designed by Philipe Starck if it doesn't flush worth a damn — and it doesn't. To the point that we have well-designed plungers by OXO next to each.
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We're finishing up some of the last, lingering projects here and are close to calling the house "finished" (after which, I'm going to have to find a new project… I've a completely disassembled vintage motorcycle in my garage that might serve well there).
In this case, our friend Sean surprised us with a "mind if I crash?" note a few weeks ago. I was thrilled to see him (and I don't use that word often), but we had just had TJ and Stefan over to demo the remaining part of the hall bath which left any guest shower-less. As they say, nothing like a quick deadline to get you motivated, and we hopped into action to finish off the bath.
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