Cool ride of the week.18

This week's cool ride is my hair stylist's Mercedes 380SL. She's had this car for about 30 years, but she has decided to sell it.

She has taken great care of it, and it shows!

Hey - someone already moved in

Mothra!

Admit it - you used to watch Godzilla movies.

Faucets & toilets & tubs

oh my! Today they installed some of the plumbing fixtures. Here is one of the tub/showers upstairs:

And here is a faucet in the master bathroom:

Here's the kitchen sink & faucet, plus garbage disposal, can't wait to grind up some junk in there:

Look, it has the pull-out sprayer:

Beaming

Today, two carpenters worked on the beams for our bedroom ceiling. They were cutting the lumber when I visited at lunch, but they had done some prep work already:

Here is a final look at that awful dumpster - they hauled it away today. You can see it was 'tagged' recently. One of the tile workers told me that there will be very little trash now, I guess they can haul it away in the back of their trucks.

Give us a splash of tile

It's a 3 day weekend for us, but not for the tile workers. They have installed the backsplash in the kitchen, a nice mosaic:

And here is the fireplace surround. I can't remember the color of that tile, either.

Next is the tile in the master bathroom. We went over this morning (Monday) and they have put the hardie back in the shower (that wallboard that's made for wet areas), plus painted it with some black tar stuff. The tile guy told me they have to let that dry for a few days, then they'll test the shower pan. Good - we don't want any leaks there.

The apartment complex we're staying in during the build is very close to downtown, and yesterday was the Freedom Fest. They had a lot of bands playing all afternoon, and the bass made our walls seem to thump. At 9:30, they had fireworks. Hubby gave me a digital camera last Christmas, which I have been using to take pics of the house. Last night I got out the instruction book, and there was a "fireworks" setting. Let's use that! It was a slooowwww shutter speed, but I just snapped away. Look at these images, unlike any fireworks you've seen:

How about this one - chasing the dragon! I must have moved the camera a lot during this exposure.

Cool ride of the week.17

This week we have red, white & blue cool rides - Happy 4th of July!

Fly the flag! Watch the fireworks! Let's all get together and pray for peace.

Countertops!

Big blog post today. We haven't been to the house in a few days. The remnants of Hurricane Alex brought a lot of rain, and when it rains in Houston, it floods. My 3 mile commute from downtown to the apartment took about 40 minutes yesterday - barf. Anyway, this morning I went over to see what's going on. Countertops have gone in. Here's a shot of the kitchen. They have left on the protective plastic, the granite really isn't an ugly gray color.

Here's a better picture of the granite. It's called Tan Brown. Whoever thought up that name didn't have their interior design mojo working. I think Copper Canyon is a nice name, so I'll call it that.

Here is one of the sinks in the master bath, we chose a different granite in there. I can't remember what it's called. How about Speckled Stone.

Here is one of the upstairs bathrooms, they have silestone countertops. It's nice and neutral, anything will go with it.

Turning to the guts of the house, I climbed up into the "big" attic today (we have two, another is over the garage - awesome). At our old house, the roofline had been raised by the previous owner, and they left the old roof joists in place, then added a new set. That attic was always a challenge to get around it, we had to crawl around this joist, over that one, under the next one. Imagine my surprise and delight when I got to the top of the ladder and stood up straight. Well, here's a pic, but don't look at it too long - middle aged ladies who don't have their war paint on look, uhhhh, tired.