May 2020 House Progress

May 18, 2020

We have been living in the house for over a year now and things are really starting to look normal. 

Same View, May 6, 2019

The kitchen floor tile is all done and Handyman is starting to build the kitchen cabinets.

The corner cupboards are almost finished in the breakfast room.  We just need the granite countertops so we can attach the upper units and finish the crown molding. 

We got a quote for diamond pane leaded glass panels for the corner cupboards. They wanted $170 each. We need four. Um, no thanks.

So I found this self stick lead stripping on a roll, and I'm making my own. It looks surprising good!

In other news, we ran the copper tubing and set a concrete pad for the condenser unit. The contractor set it in place and made the connections, so we have air conditioning! We also got a larger gate because the 36" wide unit wouldn't fit through the old 28" gate.

And finally, here's a mola I bought almost five years ago when we sailed through the San Blas Islands and met the native Kuna Yala people. Traditionally the molas are in bright shades of red, orange, yellow, and green. But occasionally the artists use other colors and I was drawn to this one.

It's been in a box for ages and I pulled it out a few days ago, framed it, and plan to hang it in the laundry room. It's almost eerie how the colors are the same as the ones I selected for this house.