Made it down and back to the project several times during the Memorial Day Weekend. On Friday last, I was able to install all of the cabinet hardware, including self-closing, full-extension drawer slides, self-closing hinges, and super cool dampers for each of those things. Dampened, self-closing hardware is all-the-rage and adds a nice finishing touch to the kitchen cabinetry.
I went back down on Memorial Day (Monday) and was able to install all of the cabinet and drawer faces, but held off on the handles and pulls for now. My only excuse for not plowing straight ahead with that project was that a small, clean, long-interval northwest swell was spilling a point-like bowl across the sand bar right out front. So for the first time in fifteen years, I walked out to the surf in front of "my house." In other words, this was the first session I've had since leaving San Diego in 1993, that I could walk from my house to the water's edge and paddle out. It's a beautiful thing and there should be many more to come.
I surfed until dark, walked home (I am sorry but I going to just keep saying that over and over again), stripped outside (wicked fun), hung my wettie from the deck and ate a dinner of left over baby back ribs I had barbequed the preceding Saturday. I parked the Red Sled in the garage and tucked into my bag for what hopefully will be my last sleep, in that Van, in that house.
Next morning (Tuesday), I went to work at 6:00 AM after a breakfast of diet Dr. Pepper and a lead-dense "half-quarterback" sandwich. Gross, but calorie dense and filling. I scraped the upstairs floor and prepped for flooring with a fine push broom and my brand new shop-vac toy, er, tool. A 6.5 horsepower vacuum cleaner! Sweeet. My crew showed at 9:00, some install tools were jigged, and Jason, Rob, and Tim commenced to laying floor while Carlos scrubbed and mopped the concrete floor downstairs to prep for polish and sealing. By clean-up at 4:00 PM, the great room began to take on that sought-after "loft-feel" with 95% of the floor layed. As a bonus, Tim finished grouting the bathroom floor tile!
Here's what we looked like on Monday and Tuesday:
Friday, May 30, 2008
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Love the beach house! Could you share the brand & model of soaking tub and brand and pattern of cork floor? My mate loves 'em.
Good life ain't it? Hope you catch some crisp autumn peelers. Cheers!
Hi Webby. The cork is Westhollow 'Labrador' available for a really decent price at ifloor.com. The tub is by American Reinforced Plastics near Tacoma, Washington. Read more about them in my blog here:
http://threetreejournal.blogspot.com/2008/02/of-sinus-infections-and-japanese.html
Thanks for reading the blog. Got the first taste of Fall surf last night with clean overhead lines and quickly cooling water temps. Take care.
tres_arboles
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