Archive for the 'Project Hutchinson' Category

I’m back to working on my eternal house project. I finished the baseboards for the downstairs, so now it is time to tackle the upstairs. The upstairs is really rough.

First off, there are these weird vents that don’t do anything. It was also surrounded in an ugly wood paneling box, which I already removed:

The back bedroom has only one half of a triangle window. Plus, it doesn’t open. So, I ordered a matching window, and two smaller horizontal ones fore below it that can open and let in some air.

Then there is the matter of the ugly drywall on the left, which consumes up valuable space. My idea is to build cupboards the better utilize the space:

Louise had the idea to get rid of this closet. It is super-ugly!

The room at the top of the stairs has horrible slat windows. I ordered two new ones to replace them. Also..more ugly wood paneling!

There are two frosted windows that you can barley see in this picture below. The one on the right is cracked. The one on the left wasn’t until I accidentally cracked it. I’ll have to get two more windows to replace them.

Louise getting rid of some of the drywall. I had to convince her to come upstairs and whack the wall a few times with the hammer. It’s fun, and how often do you get to do something like that?

Baseboards are nearly done! Project hutchinson moves one step closer to being done.

iPhone pics:

Great picture from Hans from last weekend:

(that’s me on Louise’s silk)

Louise and I stained a lot of the deck last weekend. I did most all the railings on Saturday/Sunday, and on Sunday afternoon we did the planks together (I sprayed while she brushed). Looks GREAT!

Click on pics for fullsize

I’m going to do the house soon….

The deck has a railing!:

Last night I spent a bunch of time scrubbing it to get the redwood tannin marks off (the black marks).

You can see it is still a little wet.

I also did the electrical underneath; it is bright as day under there! (no pics yet).

I added some more pictures to my Deck album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/ProjectHutchinsonDeckProgressAugust07

It is really coming along!

Don’t forget the stairs!

Project Hutchinson continues! The deck is slowly coming along, at great expense.

Here you can see some of the main beams:

Here’s some of the wood to be used:

A little of the underground work:

Check out all the pictures on the: Picasa Web Album - Deck in Aug 07

Here are some silk pictures with Louise at our house:

http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/LouiseSilk

Well, not new, but an antique that we got from Louise’s mom and step-dad, bill:

Looks great! (Thanks JD and Bill)