AIA Portland home tour

Looks like we (and our lovely new house) are likely to be involved in the AIA Portland home tour this October. More on this soon. http://www.aiaportland.org/

I believe the date is Saturday Oct 1, but I'll confirm and share more as things firm up. Sure hope we're done by then...

On the plus side, I believe it's a part of A+D 11. If you know me, you know I like little formulas like this, so I figure that's a good omen.

Tile, trim, marmoleum...oh my

Tile is going up like gangbusters. Goooo tile guys!

Also, our powder room now has our Asian Tiger orange marmoleum from the other house. It's my one way to have a piece of the old house in the new house.

Oh, Greg wants you to know that it took an astonishing 100 gallons of interior paint to paint the house walls and ceilings. Yikes. And the trim isn't even painted yet. Remind me never to paint the interior again. I think it's possible that the paint subcontractor under-estimated a bit (seriously, that is a heck of a lot of white paint). And be assured, it looks WHITE. Delightfully so.

Greg and Drew worked on the shed this week; hopefully it'll be ready to receive garage cabinets and various goodies soon. Starting tomorrow, Greg starts to put up kitchen cabinets.

A few additional pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25768433@N02/sets/72157626987086512/

The stove is lonely

"Where are my cabinets?"

Ruh-Roh

We found out today that we need to be out of our old house by 6/30 as opposed to sometime in July.

Oh wow. That is soon. Better get on that, huh?

Thwacking, schmacking, I hate...

Do you know how difficult it is to pack up 10 years of stuff accumulated by a family of 4 including 1 collector? Heavy sigh.

Greg's been an animal all week, packing everything he can get his hands on. I have helped with the packing this weekend while I'm in town between 2 business trips. Much of the upstairs is packed but the real challenges -- basement and garage -- lie ahead.

We're supposed to be able to move in starting July 14th, which is only 5 weeks away. Better start hurrying, eh?

In addition to packing, we're also preparing for a ginormous garage sale, tentatively slated for Saturday 6/25. Want some mid-century goodies? Swing on by the old house. We'll be there unloading mid-century belongings by the boxful.

In the White Room

We've been looking at interior paint colors this week. We want white. Not offwhite or cream or linen or cloud or barely [insert color here]. White-white. It has become clear that most paint companies don't make white paint. I find this extraordinary. What is more classic than white? Rodda has an entire collection of "whites" and none of them are actually white. Heavy sigh.

I believe we found something we can work with: Behr Ultra-Pure White. It's BRIGHT WHITE. Not yellowish or rosey or blueish. Just white, thankyouverymuch. Check out the color shown on the brick wall here. That is white. Those other colors shown on the walls and trim. Not white.

Now, why was that so hard?

(Note: I realize that I'm coming off as a bit pissy. I think I am growing weary of bulding our house; now I'm ready to simply live in it.)

Tripping

I'm out of town on a business trip this week, so I'll be missing out on a week's worth of project work and progress. My understanding is that work will be going on related to the walls (initial painting, I hope) and potentially the tile crew will start work on the bathrooms. Hopefully when I get home next weekend, there will be new wonders for me to behold.

Greg's working on packing up some kitchen stuff this week so that we can move cabinets soon from one house to the other. That may be next weekend's adventure.

Given that I have no other valuable info to share, I will now entertain you with photos from my trip.