timber!

 this is the granite i chose for the countertops. the picture doesn't do it justice i think it will be pretty

                                                     cabinets in

                                         wall waiting for the granite and cover

                                                        bedroom floors

                         we didn't want to gut 2 bathrooms so for the guest bathroom we had the tub and tile sprayed. a company came out for 4 or 5 hours and sprayed it with special paint. we replaced what fixtures we could and what couldn't come out without ruining the tile they polished for us. i think it turned out really  nice. we will replace floors, toilet, vanity and lights in there.

                   my single basin under mount sick was put in. the granite goes over the edges and then the faucet and disposal can be installed
we had a few trees we needed taken care of. they were dying, infested with ants and just awful!

 this is the plumeria in the back. we love trees but this made a mess back there and was in bad condition

 these 2 twin pines in the front also had to come down. they were tall!

 it was quite the production. 2 trucks came with 6 guys and they worked for an hour and had it all done. it would have taken us a few days!

                                                     one side cut half way down

                                               both sides cut half way down

 plumeria gone before i could even get back to take pics that planter will be taken out also

                       the stump was huge! i guess it was actually one tree that split into two as it grew?!

 they shoved and shoved it into the chopper, cut down some bushes for us that had thorns all over and they were gone. expensive but worth it i think. where would we take all that wood and no one got hurt!

 matt finished the texturizing on the ceiling and priming. that is not the most fun job!

and oh yeah! the house! we will cut those hedges down so you can see more of the house, it's all carport!
most houses in hawaii are not built for curb appeal. we do have 2 palms though that i love! someday in the future we will put a garage door on.

starting kitchen and floors

i started getting excited when our cabinets were delivered. we decided on white cabinets. we tried to maximize the space that we had in there. in the end i'm really  happy with the set up but since i didn't choose lazy suzan's in the corner i have a bit of a drawer bumping situation but only if the 2 drawers at the corner are open at the same time

                   we pushed the kitchen out about 3 feet which has been awesome. here they are framing the wall that will hold a bartop that we can put bar stools at

 there were flourecent lights in the kitchen. that just won't do so we took them out and then they built a sofitt (sp?) and we can do lighting above the sink there.

                                                 the cabinets going in in front of the wall

                                          the sink cabinet

                        there are the 2 offending drawers, i'll just have to put things that don't go together so i'm not opening them at the same time. there was really nothing else we could do in that corner anyway since they can't really meet from us pushing it out. it turned out well, i was a little nervous about this concept.

 the cabinets are in and the wall is in. we had power issues for about a week. half the power in the house was out so i couldn't get any great pictures but our friend ryan figured it out after lots of trouble shooting with him and HECO! can you really reno with no problems!?!

 the floor started going and it felt real at that point. we were really dissapointed we couldn't do hardwood because of the huge price tag so we looked and looked! and i found a pergo that we loved. it's a hickory with a hand scraped look. i am SO much happier with this than i would have been with wood. this is scratch and water resistant so there won't be as many freak outs on my part!

                         the hall and part of the kitchen. the bathrooms will have tile so it stops there

the living room. really coming along. we have had great workers and have been really happy!
the doors that we are replacing are going to take 4-6 weeks to come in so they can't complete the floor until the doors get put in then they'll be done.  more to come!

house demo part 3

we got to demo a wall. that was fun, who doesn't love hittting something with a sledgehammer! after the first 10 hits though, it's work again. this was into a small room which we couldn't see serving a good purpose and we wanted a nice size dining room so it had to go.

                                            that's the flooring from those 2 small rooms

      and it's down. now it just needs a lot of work and new windows and this will be a dining room

house part 2

first something to make you smile! my beautiful, healthy, gdaughter!! doesn't she look like a gerber baby or a diaper commercial?! my mom says that's what i looked like as a baby!

to continue, some demo pictures, matt has the rest on his phone so i'll download them and keep adding on. it's good for my journaling too!

 this is the ceiling in the office room. we thought it would be so easy to take down because most of it was hanging off due to poor installation but it is a pain. it's still waiting to be taken down

 this is the backyard lanai and the terracing. there's not a lot of space but enough for a table. that tree will be removed, it's infested with ants and dying. it will all be leveled out but that will be a later project.

 this is to the left behind the house. i can plant bushes or flowers or a garden in those terraces

 this is another kitchen picture just because when i show the new one you will see the difference. the cabinets to the right in the pic are now pushed out about 2 ft.

 this is the other half of the front  yard, it's all gravel so that will be fun to shovel up! we will plant grass.

 this is the ceiling in the office, if you can see those boards underneath that will be the new ceiling, exposed boards with whitewash.

 this is when the demo started. matt worked so hard, he pulled out all the cabinets and appliances by himself! i got to scrape all those linoleum tiles up off the floor. it was so sticky my  pants would get stuck to the floor!

 my leg is next to baxter. while i was scraping up the tiles he sat touching my leg the whole time. he's been a little nervous about it but is excited when we go now.

                                                     kitchen demo'd

                                          dining room floor gone

 pulling out the living room floor. this was through the whole house, it came up easily but it was tiring pulling them all up.

                                  this is from the living room looking into the kitchen

 this is our bathroom. caleb started it and matt finished it. the tub is still there but it will come out to make a large shower.

 matt scraped the popcorn ceilings in the whole house, by himself! it was a dusty hard job. the inspector said it was fine to take down so we did it ourselves!

 then we had to spray texture on every ceiling. that was a mess and it wasn't enough texture so we are not going to spray again but roll on sand texture.

 we found a few things in the house that were funny. this is a ringer for the  phone! from the 70's!

                              more demo pics to come...