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Home Depot sells Cree LED bulbs for $5 each, I just bought 250 of them!
Cree is based in NC.
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Then a big couch so that you can nap undisturbed, on-demand. Maybe even set up a creeper under a low table for the optimal sleeping quarters.
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Holy shnikeys! Off to Home Depot today.
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(From "The Nap" episode of Seinfeld which probably aired before you were born. )
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I've got hard wood!
Floors that is!
I had my concerns about the interior doors but I'm pretty pleased with them. While still a manufactured door, they are a solid core. After they were painted, they blended right in. Nothing like the hollow-core ones in the rental house. They have a nice, satisfying thunk when closing compared to what we've become used to over the past 7 months or so. I was all set to start looking for some reclaimed antique doors but I think I'll cross that off my list of things to do. Getting close. The upstairs is all painted, carpeted, fixtured, and electricaled. Downstairs still has some molding work and painting to do along with the mantle installation. The staircase isn't quite done yet but I suspect they'll get that done today. Sine we eliminated one of the walls next to the stairs (left side in pic with front door open), it's been a little bit of an effort to get the old section and new section to match and to get it to blend in with the new hardwood. Especially on a limited budget. We decided that it is what it is, the railing will just be darker and stairs will be the transition that brings everything together. The building inspector is coming tomorrow for the C.O. If all goes well the contractor has 4-5 days of cleanup, touch up and finish work to do inside. Still aiming for April 1 move-in, hopefully that's not a joke. It's only 306 days and counting. They still have to paint the exterior and build the back door landing so it's probably still a couple more weeks until they're completely out of our hair.
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Looking like a home!
Now is the ancy superball stage, where you bounce off the walls of the rental house wanting to get home and get comfortable!
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Told the Mrs. to take lots of pics just after the first day because it will never look that good again. At least until we're empty nesters in 10+ years and do a renovation with some things we wanted but couldn't afford this time around.
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Congratulations Swamp Yankee! So glad for you that you are so close, and since you asked, will pray that you move in on April's Fools Day!
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Very, very neat!
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Thanks, guys. We've got a lot riding on getting back home, for my wife's and son #2's mental health!
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Removing the upper portion of the stair wall or walls was one thing I was going to suggest earlier. Figured you had your hands full enough already though and that it may also be a load bearing wall requiring a beam. Possibly other upper floor support as well.
Even if one was needed I would have added a beam to increase the general feeling of being more open. Of course spending other peoples money is very easy. Some things are easy and some things less so depending. Anyways I wondered why the plan designer had not done so and it may just have been cost. Looking close enough to completion that you should be back in soon enough anyways. I also think we had a wider choice and variety of lighting fixtures long ago at reasonable prices. Today many lighting fixtures I might like are very pricey. In the last year I went looking for a bathroom wall fixture that would look decent and had a job finding one. It was the last one available and was tastefully designed. When I went to install it it needed serious reworking even though brand new so I did it. When I went to the store it was purchased from for something else. I thought if they had sold it to almost anyone else it would have been returned. So I casually mentioned it to the staff. They asked me the rework time and actually paid me well for it. I really thought as I had not returned it expected nothing. They were decent enough to inform me that was why they were no longer carrying that lighting line. Far too many customer complaints. That bathroom turned out very nice even though I had to move a wall to get the space it needed. The work even at my age I do not find hard. Making good choices in tile color and texture and many others If is where my mental effort goes. . Combined with attempting to make it all age more gracefully rather than be too dated too fast. . That one I was more than satisfied other than the owners did not want a glass wall I suggested and will probably regret it. If the room almost stops people the first time they see it you probably have it about right I have found.. Last edited by barry12345; 03-25-2015 at 05:45 PM. |
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No knotty pine paneling?
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